Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds

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shoulders of giants. This has been true of my own efforts, and is even
more true of this book which has relied on the industry of a worldwide
community of hundreds of researchers. It is always risky to single out
individuals, but I am terribly conscious that this book would certainly
have been the poorer and probably impossible without the research out-
put of the teams inspired by Tim Guilford at Oxford University, Rich-
ard Phillips at the British Antarctic Survey, Henri Weimerskirch of the
French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Rory Wilson
of Swansea University. Thank you all.