num_pages: 282
description: A very personal mix of memoir and natural history from the author of Liquid Gold.Ten weeks into its life a Manx shearwater chick will emerge from its burrow and fly 8000 miles from the west coast of the British Isles to the South Atlantic. It will be unlikely to touch land again for four years.Part memoir part homage to wilderness Shearwater traces the authors 50-year obsession with one of natures supreme travellers. In the finest tradition of nature writing Roger Morgan-Grenville author of Liquid Gold  described by Mary Colwell (Curlew Moon) as a book that ignites joy and warmth  unpicks the science behind its incredible journey; and into the story of a year in the shearwaters life he threads the inspirational influence of his Hebridean grandmother who instilled in him a love of wild places and wild animals.Full of lightly-worn knowledge acute human observation and self-deprecating humour Shearwater brings to life a truly mysterious and charismatic bird.
language: English
title: Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home
publisher:  Icon Books Ltd