Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds - A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything in It

"The author takes to the high seas in pursuit of elusive birds, artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor"--

List of contents

Author's Note
Good Water, Bad Water
A Tropicbird for Trudy
Sea Level Doesn't Exist
The Half-Life of Salt
Sunrise with Sea Snakes
Double Hyena Ollies a Railing
How to Be an Albatross
The Lazarus Birds of Norfolk Island
Watching Pingüinos at the Rey Jorge Dump
Ernst Mayr Was Never Bored
Bombing the Barnacles
Pages from My Last Field Guide
Seaweed, Stones, Seed Pearls, Twine
How to Photograph a Bird
Going to the Museum with Winslow Homer
The Biblical Tide Pools of Cannery Row
Melville in Patagonia
Ghost Ship
Notes and Image Credits
About the Author
A Note on Type

About the author

Poet and essayist Charles Hood has been a factory worker, a ski instructor, and a birding guide in Africa. His recent books published by Heyday include Nocturnalia, an appreciation of nature after dark, and the essay collection A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature. His wildlife studies have taken him around the world, from the high Arctic to the South Pole, and from Tibet to West Africa to the Amazon. Mammal no. 1,000 seen and recorded on his world animal list was a Crossley's dwarf lemur in Madagascar. (Mammal no. 999 was a Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat.) Recently retired and now professor emeritus, Hood lives in the Mojave Desert with two kayaks, two mountain bikes, two dogs, and five thousand books.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Hood, Hood Charles
• Publisher: Heyday books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2025
• EAN: 9781597146661
• ISBN: 978-1-59714-666-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; NATURE / Essays, NATURE / Ecology, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, NATURE / Animals / Marine Life, Applied ecology, Second World War, Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest, Coastlines, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Zoology: marine and freshwater mammals, Wildlife: aquatic creatures: general interest, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Wildlife: Aquatic Creatures, Oceanography (seas), Oceanography (seas & oceans)