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The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History
Author(s): Richard J. King (Author)
- Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
- Publication Date: 4 Sept. 2014
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611686997
- ISBN-13: 9781611686999
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
King teases out this relationship from multiple perspectives–literary, historical, artistic, ornithological, political–in a book that is informative, personable, and fascinating.– “Birding”
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“Entertaining and thought-provoking. . . . Eloquent and expansive.”–
Seabird“King teases out this relationship from multiple perspectives–literary, historical, artistic, ornithological, political–in a book that is informative, personable, and fascinating.” —
Birding“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“The Devil’s Cormorant combines natural history, social and economic impacts through a series of stories, each told with compassion and humour.”–
British Birds“They are in short amazing birds, and this book is a great insight into their character and ours.”–
SF Natural History Series“Thorough and authoritative as well as charming. . . . King demonstrates his multidimensional expertise on matters relating to the sea in this excellent exploration of the world of cormorants.”–
Library Journal“Splendid and eclectic.”
Environmental History“The Devil s Cormorant combines natural history, social and economic impacts through a series of stories, each told with compassion and humour.
British Birds“They are in short amazing birds, and this book is a great insight into their character and ours.
SF Natural History Series““Splendid and eclectic.” “Environmental History””
Birding”
Environmental History”
Living Bird”
Nature Conservancy”
“Splendid and eclectic.” –Environmental History
“King is asking us to work out the terms of endearment, to figure out compromises that remain crucial to the planet. For more than 300 pages he presses the reader to evaluate bird and human co-existence. Perhaps this duck and its story carry some of the answers. Read the book and get involved. And save some applause for the author.”‘–CoastWeekend.com
” King is asking us to work out the terms of endearment, to figure out compromises that remain crucial to the planet. For more than 300 pages he presses the reader to evaluate bird and human co-existence. Perhaps this duck and its story carry some of the answers. Read the book and get involved. And save some applause for the author.”–CoastWeekend.com
“Fascinating. . . . A great book to have at home or aboard.”–American Schooner Association
“Mankind’s literary, historical, cultural, ecological and absurdly comical relationship with the ultimate “love ’em or hate ’em” bird–the only earthly creature that can migrate the length of a continent and climb up cliff faces–is examined by King, a lecturer on the literature of the sea at Williams College and Mystic Seaport.”–Connecticut Magazine
