In the award-winning The Narrow Edge, author Deborah Cramer accompanies tiny shorebirds – red knots — along with their extraordinary migration from one end of the earth to the other, witnessing the challenges the birds face along an increasingly congested and fragile shore. Their story is universal – the story of millions of shorebirds flying across the world. The health of red knots is intertwined with our own. Shorebirds depend on the tiny pin-head sized eggs of an ancient animal few people have ever seen – the horseshoe crab — to fuel their long journey to the Arctic, while we depend on the horseshoe crabs’ blue blood, to keep our vaccines, including covid vaccines and drugs, free from potentially dangerous bacterial contamination. Both red knots and horseshoe crabs are endangered in Asia and America. The Narrow Edge, celebrating the dedication of people across the world working to restore these precious animals, is an inspiring story of loss and resilience, tenacity and courage.
Spanish edition in South America 
Chinese edition
As we lose our own bearings, the long flights of shorebirds offer us a compass. Flying from one home to the next, they carry an imprint of each, the quality of their lives in one home enhanced or diminished by their lives in another. At the end of their journey, they have taken the measure of a shoreline running the length of the Earth
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To Purchase the book please check the links as follow:
- The Chinese Edition
- The English Edition Outside of North America
- The English Edition in North America
- The Spanish Edition in South America
About The Author
Deborah Cramer lives with her family at the edge of a salt marsh in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her most recent book, The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey, received the Best Book Award from the U. S. National Academies of Science, the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center. The Narrow Edge has now been translated into Spanish and Chinese. She’s a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Solutions Initiative at MIT.
This piece was prepared online by Panuruji Kenta, Publisher, SEVENSEAS Media