Wild Bird and Cultural Man. The Common Eider and Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries of Interaction

 Alexandra Goryashko's book on the eider Somateria mollissima is a weighty, large-format volume of 495 pages on coated paper, which is even difficult to hold in your hands. The book consists of five parts and 21 chapters. The first part is devoted to the biology of the eider. Here the whole life cycle of this bird species and its amazing unique features are described in detail. The essay gives the usual information for a zoologist, set out in an accessible and understandable language. Anyone who opens this book will be able to create for themselves an ‘image of the species’, to imagine the world of the eider, recreated by the author. The story about this northern duck could be quite exhausted, and then something quite extraordinary begins.