The Birds of Heaven
Subtitle: Travels with Cranes
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: December 20, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780374199449
First sentence: On a rare clear morning-the first day of summer 1992-flying across the Bering Strait from the Yukon delta toward the Diomede Islands and the Chukotskiy Peninsula of Siberia, I imagine the gray sun-silvered strait as seen from on high by a migrating crane, more particularly, by the golden eye of the Crane from the East,, as the lesser sandhill crane of North America is known to traditional peoples on its westernmost breeding territory in Siberia.