5/12/2023 0 Comments Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy![]() Like the Arctic tern, McConaghy thrives on the peripatetic life, a familiar comfort. (Arterra / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) What the Saghani crew doesn’t know is that Franny, harboring an ocean’s worth of guilt, is bent on self-destruction and can’t always control the collateral damage. So she enlists the Saghani’s prickly captain, who agrees to follow the terns in hopes that the birds will lead them to fish. Franny, an ornithologist of sorts, has managed to attach tracking bands to three birds but has no way to follow their path. The white bird with a jaunty black cap and red bill flies from the Arctic all the way to the Antarctica and then back again in a year, racking up some 25,000 miles. ![]() ![]() One of the few species left is the Artic tern, which has the longest migration of any animal. The last known wolf died in captivity the previous winter. In “Migrations,” there are no more monkeys, chimps, apes or gorillas, big cats, bears or reptiles living in their natural habitat. She elbows her way onto the Saghani, one of the few fishing boats allowed to overturn the oceans for the last scraps of sea life in a world that’s like ours but with one key difference: Climate change, and particularly the extinction of nearly all the world’s wildlife, has accelerated to a devastating pitch. ![]() Published as “The Last Migration” in Australia and the U.K., the book follows Franny Stone, a tempestuous young woman who lands in Greenland to track the migration of the Arctic tern. ![]()
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