![]() Meiburg’s party, deeper into the forest his quest becomes ours, too. In fact, each of them leads us, alongside Mr. None of these details are extraneous to Mr. Meiburg certainly has, and with him as a guide you think you can almost feel, for an instant, that fresh skin hardening in the forest’s cool evening air. Ever wondered what a pink-toed tarantula feels like after shedding its exoskeleton? Mr. Meiburg weaves a seamless narrative from the most diverse observations. Meiburg is equally skilled at evoking the challenging environment of the Falklands as he is at placing his readers in the midst of a teeming jungle in Guyana, home of the elusive red-throated caracara. Of course, simply as a natural history of the caracaras, A Most Remarkable Creature delivers splendidly, too. Meiburg usefully reminds us that the ancestors of caracaras roamed the skies well before anything resembling us had come along. Meiburg’s vivid prose I sometimes fancied they just might be-this book would give them a lot of information about that exceptional creature named Jonathan Meiburg. If caracaras were able to read-and immersing myself in Mr. ![]()
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