The Devil's Cormorant

preview-18
  • The Devil's Cormorant Book Detail

  • Author : Richard J. King
  • Release Date : 2013-10-01
  • Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
  • Genre : Science
  • Pages : 366
  • ISBN 13 : 1611682258
  • File Size : 24,24 MB

The Devil's Cormorant by Richard J. King PDF Summary

Book Description: Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The DevilÕs Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worldÕs most misunderstood waterfowl.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Devil's Cormorant books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Devil's Cormorant

The Devil's Cormorant

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 4354 Views
DOWNLOAD

Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can mig

The Devil's Cormorant

The Devil's Cormorant

File Size : 42,42 MB
Total View : 8982 Views
DOWNLOAD

Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can mig

The Double-Crested Cormorant

The Double-Crested Cormorant

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 7733 Views
DOWNLOAD

Explores the roots of the human-cormorant conflict and assesses the federal policies that have been developed to manage the bird's population in the twenty-firs

The Cormorant

The Cormorant

File Size : 76,76 MB
Total View : 9234 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the third installment of the suspenseful Miriam Black series, Miriam is on the road again, having transitioned from “thief” to “killer.” Miriam Black

Out Standing in the Field

Out Standing in the Field

File Size : 61,61 MB
Total View : 8794 Views
DOWNLOAD

Some books are catalysts. Shake Hands with the Devil was one. For 2017, that book is Out Standing in the Field. In her memoir, Sandra Perron describes her exper