Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds

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FAR FROM LAND The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds MICHAEL BROOKE With illustrations by Bruce Pearson Princeton University Press Pri ...

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Dedicated to any and everyone who loves the sea ...

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CONTENTS A Personal Prelude ix 1 Introduction to the World’s Seabirds: Past Knowledge and New Revelations 1 2 Taking the Plunge: ...

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A PERSONAL PRELUDE It is a happy fact that people following many different callings will aver that they have the best job in the ...

x | A Personal Prelude whether captor or captive were the more surprised. But the Shag was none the worse for its irregular inte ...

a Personal PrelUde | xi wards the end of their laying period and some birds had failed to lay in burrows, as per nature’s bluepr ...

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the World’s Seabirds Past Knowledge and New Revelations I remember, at a recent international conferen ...

2 | Chapter 1 were unknown 50 years ago and the early clumsy ‘bricks’ clutched by Gordon Gekko in Wall Street now seem laughable ...

introdUction to the world’s seabirds | 3 hope is that the westerlies will have blown rare seabirds from further west in the Atla ...

4 | Chapter 1 birds to cover immense distances and to provide cheer for lonely sailors a thousand miles from land. Despite their ...

introdUction to the world’s seabirds | 5 scientific intuition. This step must be postponed until I have introduced the dramatis ...