LAST OF THE CURLEWS and Epilogue copyright © 1995 by Fred Bodsworth. Foreword copyright © 1995 by W. S. Merwin. Afterword copyright © 1995 by Murray Gell-Mann. Illustrations © 1995 by Abigail Rorer, based on original drawings by T. M. Shorter.
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LAST OF THE CURLEWS was originally published in 1955 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
FIRST COUNTERPOINT EDITION, designed by David Bullen.
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bodsworth, Fred, 1918-
Last of the curlews / Fred Bodsworth ; foreword by W. S. Merwin;
afterword by Murray Gell-Mann; illustrated by Abigail Rorer.
p. cm.
“Based on original drawings by T. M. Shortt.”
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Eskimo curlew—Fiction. 2. Bird—Migration—Fiction. 3. Extinct birds—Fiction. I. Title.
PR91993.B56L37 1995
813′.54-dc20 95-33194
ISBN 978-1-58243-735-4
eISBN 978-1-58243-886-3
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