Primary Format: Paper | |
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ISBN: | 9781611686999 |
Published: | 08/05/2014 |
Pages: | 360 |
Size: | 6 x 9 in. |
Subject(s): | Nature & Environment |
Richard King's The Devil's Cormorant is a brilliant book. It is scientifically well-informed, serious, funny, and full of good stories...a post-modern ornithology.
—Living Bird
Splendid and eclectic.
—Environmental History
Despite the subtitle, this is a work as much about human history and values, as it is about nature. King sees past the symbol and presents the real cormorant, living amidst real people. And one is left with this conclusion: Surely we need animals as symbols. But let’s not allow it to obscure the real, complicated, beautiful creatures among us.
—Nature Conservancy
King teases out this relationship from multiple perspectives--literary, historical, artistic, ornithological, political--in a book that is informative, personable, and fascinating.
—Birding
Entertaining and thought-provoking. . . . Eloquent and expansive.
—Seabird
RICHARD J. KING is senior lecturer in literature of the sea with the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport. He is the author of Lobster.