Deborah Cramer

Best Book, National Academy of Sciences
Rachel Carson Book Award
Winner of the Reed Award in Environmental Writing

“The Narrow Edge is at once an intimate portrait of the small red knot and a much larger exploration of our wondrous, imperiled world.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

“In the face of global warming, is our big brain connected to a big enough heart that we might preserve the beauty of the earth we were given? Heart is no problem for the red knot.”—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth

“I have a compass, GPS, and radio,” [Cramer] writes. “The birds have—what? By the end of this journey I am more in awe than when I began.”  Follow her graceful writing for the full 9,500 miles and you will share in that awe.” –Laurence Marschall, Natural History

“Authoritatively researched, clearly written, and beautifully illustrated, this book is best of its class.” — EO Wilson

“Deborah Cramer’s achievement in creating this classic study of the world’s seas is destined for lasting importance. Her book is a hymn to something that is both beautiful and fragile, a fervent prayer that we recognize it as such, and an eloquent plea for all humankind to cherish it.” — Simon Winchester author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman

“Rachel Carson wrote the ocean’s biography for the 20th century, and Deborah Cramer, with the same passion and meticulous research, has written it for the 21st. This book is a remarkable achievement.” — Linda Lear author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature