The Seafarers
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The Seafarers

A Journey Among Birds

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eBook - ePub

The Seafarers

A Journey Among Birds

About this book

*WINNER* of the Saltire First Book of the Year 2019 / Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019 The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of charismatic Arctic terns, elegant fulmars and stoic eiders, to name just a few. Often found in the most remote and dramatic reaches of our shores, these colonies are landscapes shaped not by us but by the birds. In 2015, Stephen Rutt escaped his hectic, anxiety-inducing life in London for the bird observatory on North Ronaldsay, the most northerly of the Orkney Islands. In thrall to these windswept havens and the people and birds that inhabit them, he began a journey to the edges of Britain. From Shetland, to the Farnes of Northumberland, down to the Welsh islands off the Pembrokeshire coast, he explores the part seabirds have played in our history and what they continue to mean to Britain today. The Seafarers is the story of those travels: a love letter, written from the rocks and the edges, for the salt-stained, isolated and ever-crowded world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: London and Orkney
  5. 1 Storm Petrels – Shetland
  6. 2 Skuas – Shetland
  7. 3 Auks – Northumberland
  8. 4 Eiders – Northumberland
  9. 5 Terns – Northumberland
  10. 6 Gulls – Newcastle
  11. 7 Manx Shearwaters – Skomer
  12. 8 Vagrants – Lundy, Fastnet, Sole and Fitzroy
  13. 9 Gannets – Orkney
  14. 10 Fulmars – Orkney
  15. Epilogue
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Bibliography
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. Copyright