Deborah Cramer – Author of The Narrow Edge

The Narrow Edge: A TINY BIRD, AN ANCIENT CRAB, AND AN EPIC JOURNEY Red Knot

Best Book, National Academy of Sciences,
Rachel Carson Book Award,
Winner of the Reed Award in Environmental Writing

Each year tiny sandpipers—red knots—undertake a near miraculous 19,000 mile journey from one end of the earth to the other and back. In this firsthand account, Deborah Cramer accompanies them on their extraordinary odyssey along the length of two continents…read more

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“An intimate portrait of the small red knot and a much larger exploration of our wondrous, imperiled world.”
—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
“A remarkable tale of science, nature, and humanity.”
—Susan Solomon, Founding Director, MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative and author of The Coldest March
“Superbly written and gripping…more thrilling than the Kentucky Derby.”
—Thomas E. Lovejoy, National Geographic Conservation Fellow
“A book so multidimensional, yet somehow so admirably succinct, I wish I’d written it.”
—Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“Cramer brilliantly presents us with an ecosystem of many parts.”
—Donald Kennedy, President Emeritus, Stanford University
“The finely told story of this bird will, hopefully, help summon greater affection for our home planet”
—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth
“An eloquent exploration of our relationship to nature”
—Nancy Knowlton, author of Citizens of the Sea

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