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02618aam a2200313 i 4500 001 F76639F0D67A11E3A5A1377EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140508013429 008 130528s2013 nhua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2013009645 020 $a 1611682258 020 $a 9781611682250 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QL696.P4745 $b K56 2013 082 00 $a 598.4/3 $2 23 100 1 $a King, Richard Jackson, $d 1960- 245 14 $a The devil's cormorant : $b a natural history / $c Richard J. King. 260 $a Durham, New Hampshire : $b University of New Hampshire Press, $c c2013. 300 $a 352 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a March -- Gifu City, Japan -- April -- Henderson Harbor, United States -- May -- Aran Islands, Ireland -- June -- South Georgia, Antarctica -- July -- East Sand Island, United States -- August -- Tring, England -- September -- Bering Island, Russia -- October -- GalaÌpagos Islands, Ecuador -- November -- Belzoni, United States -- December -- Isla Chincha Centro, Peru -- January -- Cape Town, South Africa -- February -- Gates Island, United States -- March -- Appendix: Cormorant Species of the World and IUCN Red List Status. 520 $a Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The Devil's Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the world's most misunderstood waterfowl. 650 0 $a Cormorants. 650 0 $a Cormorants $x History. 941 $a 2 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611022349.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826081920.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F76639F0D67A11E3A5A1377EDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search