Whitecap
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Each winter the sleepy fishing town of Bimbulla, on the southern New South Wales coast, is visited by the magnificent wandering albatross on its stopover to the Antarctic.Dig is a loner, a scientist who lives to tag hundreds of these stately creatures on their annual appearance. This year, though, a leg band on a bird that was tagged in the 1960s hints at sinister events in the past and he goes looking for clues . . . Whitecap is a stunning evocation of the natural world-and the unearthing of a small town's secrets.
Author: Woodford James
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 154mm x 233mm, 322 g
Published: 2007, Text Publishing, Australia
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Each winter the sleepy fishing town of Bimbulla, on the southern New South Wales coast, is visited by the magnificent wandering albatross on its stopover to the Antarctic.Dig is a loner, a scientist who lives to tag hundreds of these stately creatures on their annual appearance. This year, though, a leg band on a bird that was tagged in the 1960s hints at sinister events in the past and he goes looking for clues . . . Whitecap is a stunning evocation of the natural world-and the unearthing of a small town's secrets.
Whitecap