Last of the curlews - fred bodsworth

In this conservation classic, originally published more than sixty years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlews perilous migration and search for a mate.

The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a species on the brink of extinction, and for all in nature that is endangered.

This new paperback edition includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.

Merwin and an afterword by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann.