The Storm-petrels

The Storm-petrels

After something of a dry spell for new Poyser titles, a flurry of recent publications – including The Storm-petrels – has shown that the series is still capable of delivering the very best of species and family monographs. The author, Rob Thomas, now a senior lecturer in Zoology at Cardiff University, has apparently been hooked on storm-petrels since first encountering them on Fair Isle as a 16-year-old, and a combination of his enthusiasm for the subject matter and his skills as a communicator make this book memorable.

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