The Seabird's Cry

Adam Nicolson

Collins

£9.99

The Shiants are a small group of islands in the Minch, four miles off the SE coast of Lewis, N of Skye. They are one of the most important seabird breeding colonies for seabirds in Europe. Adam Nicolson first visited the Shiants when he was a boy: the impact of 300,000 birds was unforgettable: ‘Beauty and perfection, death dissolution and life, suffering and triumph: it was all here’. When he was 21, he was given the islands. This astounding book focuses on ten species: fulmars, puffins, kittiwakes, gulls, guillemots, cormorants & shags, shearwaters, gannets, razorbills, albatrosses. Nicolson combines his personal passion and observations with up-to-date research and a deep sense of poetry. It is both uplifting and horrifying. A masterpiece.