{"product_id":"the-narrow-edge-deborah-cramer-9780300219692","title":"The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson's \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, this book--winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center's 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category--reveals how the health and well-being of a tiny bird and an ancient crab mirrors our own\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award given by the Society of Environmental Journalists\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"[Cramer] writes . . . 'By the end of this journey I am more in awe than when I began.' Follow her graceful writing for the full 9,500 miles and you will share in that awe.\"--Laurence A. Marschall, \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Her writing is vivid, novelistic . . . The resulting book is everything a natural history should be.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiving Bird\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards our health. Now, the rufa red knot, newly listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, will likely face extinction in the foreseeable future across its entire range, 40 states and 27 countries. The first United States bird listed because global warming imperils its existence, it will not be the last: the red knot is the twenty-first century's \"canary in the coal mine.\" Logging thousands of miles following the knots, shivering with the birds out on the snowy tundra, tracking them down in bug-infested marshes, Cramer vividly portrays what's at stake for millions of shorebirds and hundreds of millions of people living at the sea edge. \u003ci\u003eThe Narrow Edge\u003c\/i\u003e offers an uplifting portrait of the tenacity of tiny birds and of the many people who, on the sea edge we all share, keep knots flying and offer them safe harbor. Winner of the 2016 \u003cb\u003eNational Academies Communications Award\u003c\/b\u003e for best book that honors the best in science communications. Sponsored by the Keck Futures Initiative--a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, with the support of the W.M. Keck Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Cramer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300219695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300219692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Deborah Cramer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993943834879,"sku":"9780300219692","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa8200bb-1620-4cbc-9a35-99a763c3f3b4.jpg?v=1683327200","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-narrow-edge-deborah-cramer-9780300219692","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}