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Book SynopsisThe tragic history of the cormorant's relations with humans and the implications for today's wildlife management policy
Trade Review'Combining natural history, policy analysis and rhapsodic appreciation, [Wires has] produced a book in which context matters for animals as much as it does for people. She would like us to see the whole bird – biologically, historically, culturally – and to understand the way ancient animosities can influence modern environmental policy.' —Jonathan Rosen,
London Review of Books -- Jonathan Rosen * London Review of Books *
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The Double-Crested Cormorant is extremely important given the unprecedented nature of the history of the management of this species and its ramifications to the way we manage wildlife and respond to those apex predators we see as competitors. It is also a rare treatment that places human society as much under the magnifying glass as the bird itself.”—Keith Hobson, Environment Canada -- Keith Hobson
“Linda Wires’s brilliant documentation of the oft-maligned cormorant carries the reader to an unsuspected place, an intersection of the cormorant’s and our own worlds, where anyone can rethink his or her relationship with another species. Wonderful illustrations and definitive prose combine to lure the reader deep into the cormorant’s complicated life.”—John Marzluff, co-author of
The Gifts of the Crow;
Dog Days, Raven Nights; and
In the Company of Crows and Ravens -- John Marzluff
“This is an important work, a benchmark popular study of a bird species that needs enlightened help in order to survive.
The Double-Crested Cormorant: Plight of a Feathered Pariah ought to be for sale in the gift shops of every national park in the United States at the very least – and from the sound of Wires’s conclusions, several copies sent to Congress might help too.”—Steve Donohue,
Open Letters Monthly -- Steve Donohue * Open Letters Monthly *
“I think this [will] be an important book and [will] make a significant contribution to the several fields that it covers.”—Ian Nisbet, co-author of
Terns -- Ian Nisbet
“In
The Double-Crested Cormorant, Wires gets us a little bit closer to seeing the cormorant as a creature that is not a winged manifestation of our own fears, but simply a bird.”—Ingrid Satelmajer,
The Los Angeles Review of Books -- Ingrid Satelmajer * The Los Angeles Review of Books *
