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Wings Across The Desert

The Incredible Motorized Crane Migration

by (author) David Ellis

Publisher
Hancock House
Initial publish date
Jun 2001
Category
General, Regional, Personal Memoirs
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888394804
    Publish Date
    Jun 2001
    List Price
    $17.95

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Description

A story of experimental crane migration & release.Wings Across the Desert documents a quest to determine if a flock of cranes could be trained to follow a truck on a long-distance migration and arrive wild enough to survive after release. This fast-moving, and often humorous, odyssey describes the training of tiny crane chicks and then the truck-led convoy of the grown birds on a bone-jarring, backroad migration over the mountains and across the deserts of Arizona. David Ellis' cranes and his team of unshaven, obsessively dedicated craniacs suffer collisions with powerlines, eagle attacks and close calls with an array or trains, trucks and cars. The mood of this true adventure story varies from playful to mournful as the wonder and harshness of nature imprints the journey's outcome.

About the author

DAVID ELLIS is a communications consultant who has written frequently about the state of television in Canada. Specializing in audience research and regulatory affairs, he acts as Director of Research for the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. He holds a doctorate in communications theory from the Sorbonne Nouvelle.

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