Last of the Curlews by Bodsworth, Fred - 2010

Toronto: New Canadian Library, 2010. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Very light shelf rubbing, little wear overall. Text is clean. 'One of the swiftest and most graceful of all shorebirds, the Eskimo curlew once made its 9,000-mile migration from Patagonia to the Arctic in flocks so dense that they darkened the sky. [This book is the author's] elegy on the curlew, which has been brought to the verge of extinction by the game-hunter's wanton slaughter. With unassuming eloquence, the novel follows the doomed search of a solitary curlew for a female of his kind. First published in 1954, [it] remains a passionate and haunting indictment of man's destructive interference with the natural world.' Illustrated. 119 pages..