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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 352 p. Contains:

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 349pp. Extremities book & Dj rubbed. Endnotes & index. Illus. by Robert Bateman.

Size: 9x6x1; Remainder Mark top edge, else in Very Good+ condition. Acclaimed

Size: 9x6x1; Remainder Mark top edge, else in Very Good+ condition. Acclaimed writer Peter Matthiessen, a self-professed "craniac, " has been observing and studying all kinds of birds most of his life, but his pursuit of cranes is closer to a spiritual quest than a naturalist's exercise. These majestic, mythic, and notoriously shy birds, capable of soaring at heights of 20, 000 feet, are often fond of remote and rugged places, so just locating the birds can be difficult enough, determining an accurate number often impossible. Some locales, such as the breeding grounds on the Platte River in Nebraska, boast flocks half a million strong--"by far the greatest crane assemblies on earth"; other areas support only a precious few. Matthiessen's search for 15 different species of cranes has taken him to hidden corners of Siberia, China, Mongolia, Tibet, Sudan, and Australia (where Atherton cranes were not even discovered until 1961). Despite his many years of adventure and wide travels, each crane sighting is still a thrill for him, and his curiosity and contagious enthusiasm bring the book alive. But The Birds of Heaven also serves as an ecological warning: "Perhaps more than any other living creatures, they evoke the retreating wilderness, the vanishing horizons of clean water, earth, and air upon which their species--and ours, too, though we learn it very late--must ultimately depend for survival." Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927-April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, and zen teacher. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). He was also a prominent environmental activist.

Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 349 p. Contains:

Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 349 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. A straight, solid and clean text copy. A good reader copy. First Edition 2001.

Book By the author of In The Spirit of Crazy Horse and many more. Stated First Edition, map endpapers describing Cranes in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.

Book By the author of In The Spirit of Crazy Horse and many more. Stated First Edition, map endpapers describing Cranes in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.