Last of the Curlews

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. Last Of The Curlews is this Fred Bodsworth'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 its kind. This novel remains a passionate and haunting indictment of man's destructive interference with the natural world.