Last of the Curlews

Very good. Previous owner's blind stamp on cover page.

For birders and naturalists of all ages everywhere, Last of the Curlews offers a poignant and poetic tale of the last of a beautiful, now extinct species of birdlife.

This extraordinary fictionalized account traces the last migratory journey of a pair of Eskimo curlews from the Antarctic tip of South America, to their breeding ground two continents away in the Arctic Circle. Quotes from actual sightings (and shootings) of this doomed species are interwoven in this simple but compelling story of the last two curlews.

A reissue of an old favorite for a new generation of fans, this edition features a new foreword by Dr. Harold Mahan, Executive Director of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History.