Last of the Curlews

by Fred Bodsworth

Genres: Animals

Synopsis

In this conservation classic, originally published fifty–five years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a species on the brink of extinction, and for all in nature that is endangered. This new paperback edition includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet W.S. Merwin and an afterword by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell–Mann.

Release date: May 1, 2011

Publisher: Counterpoint

Print pages: 176