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...owns the air above the sea. In the mid-1990s, when scientists first started tagging albatrosses for tracking via satellite, they discovered something astonishing: albatrosses spend 95% of their lives over the ocean, and most of that flying. Albatrosses have the longest wingspan on earth, and they can stay aloft continuously for years, dozing on the wing. In Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival--ignore the sappy subtitle--Carl Safina follows a single bird as it roams the globe gathering food for its chick (be warned: this book contains extended scenes of fish regurgitation...
...Club. They form a loose, chatty little clique and stumble from bar to bar, job to job and bed to bed, often with the obliging locals. Their story lines go nowhere--a love affair fails to materialize, two angry brothers never make their peace--but the book almost stays aloft on Phillips' astonishing verbal verve. He has the gift of the perfect snarky one-liner (of a woman's too-pretty outfit: "She looked like she was auditioning for a douche ad"), but too much of the conversation has a quality of freshman dorm. There's a lot of talk...
...languages. Now Bach is back, working on an unlikely new series of books called "The Ferret Chronicles," starring a band of "intelligent, pacifist ferrets who live and work in a world alongside of their human counterparts." The first two installments, "Rescue Ferrets at Sea" and "Air Ferrets Aloft" will be published on June 25. Will his readers find skunks' furry first cousins as appealing as seagulls? Stay tuned...
Back at Balloon Aloft headquarters we finally get our champagne, as we toast the success of our 30 minute ride. It's only 8 a.m., plenty of time still for a country breakfast of bacon, eggs and freshly brewed coffee, the better to prepare for a day of rambling in the vineyards or touring wineries to sample some of the fine vintages the Hunter has to offer...
...want to experience the Hunter Valley from aloft, book Balloon Aloft's $250- per-person tour at (61-2) 4938-1955 or www.balloonaloft.com...