num_pages: 174
description: Driven by instinct, the graceful Eskimo curlew flies its nine-thousand-mile route from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America and back again. Bodsworth conveys the mechanics of this single bird's remarkable flight and its instinctive search for others of its kind. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species, and indeed for all in nature that is endangered.
language: English
title: Last of the Curlews
titlecomplete: Last of the Curlews
genres: Fiction, Ornithology, Ecology, Animals, Nature, Natural History, Canada, Birds, Classics, Animal Fiction
ratings_count: 307
publisher: Counterpoint