By Richard J. King
ISBN-10: 1611684749
ISBN-13: 9781611684742
Behold the cormorant: silent, nonetheless, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, hovering, speedy as a snake. Evolution has crafted the single creature on the earth which may migrate the size of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch with ease on a department or a cord, stroll on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on hundreds of thousands of alternative species, and stay beside either clean and salt water in an enormous worldwide diversity of temperatures and altitudes, usually in shut proximity to guy. lengthy an emblem of gluttony, greed, undesirable success, and evil, the cormorant has led a stricken life in human historical past, fantasy, and literature. The birds were prized as a resource of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction within the Arctic, proficient by way of the japanese to trap fish, demonized through Milton in Paradise misplaced, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by means of game and advertisement fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. within the Devil’s Cormorant, Richard King takes us again in time and around the globe to teach us the background, nature, ecology, and financial system of the world’s such a lot misunderstood waterfowl.
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