The sparrow-sized sandpiper flies uninterrupted from Canada to Venezuela, equivalent to running 126 marathons back-to-back, without food, water, or rest. It stays hydrated by sipping moisture from its own muscles and organs. Brimming with new research, much of it thanks to the use of geolocators on migrating birds, this is a soaring epic of ornithology.
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
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The former Editor of the Financial Times (2005-2020) was scribbling away during the tech boom, the global financial crisis, the rise of China, Brexit, etc...
The Powerful and the Damned
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The Nightingale: Notes on a songbird
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A glorious combination of photography and cutting-edge technology - yet even while we can map migratory routes with geolocators, there is much still unknown. Large format.