Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home Free Audiobook Download by Roger Morgan-Grenville

Roger Morgan-Grenville is an experienced sailor and marine photographer who captivated audiences for his stories of exploration and discovery. In Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home, he tells us about sailing the mighty Roaring Forties on the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. He sails from Cape Horn to Falkland Islands, battling gales and wild seas with a crew of six aboard his 10-metre boat. Morgan-Grenville's account is fascinating: not only does he share a few nautical anecdotes but also gives some insight into why he decided to go sailing in this region of the world where it's one long way home.

Shearwater is a memoir by Roger Morgan-Grenville, author of the acclaimed Bird, an Ocean and a Long Way Home. The story follows the author's journey from his childhood in England when he first fell in love with bird watching and the natural world to his graduate school studies in Canada about birds' migration patterns.

Shearwater tells the story of Roger Morgan-Grenville and his family's journey from Manhattan to the Azores, an island group in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They sailed from New York City in a boat called M/S Shearwater in order to watch as migratory birds passed by during their mid-life crisis. In order to follow these migrating birds, he and his wife bought a boat and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean. They travelled on a voyage that would take them one year and nine months at sea.

Shearwater is the story of one of two Shearwaters, a bird that breeds on the South American coast and migrates every year to spend winter in the Galápagos Islands. The narrator begins by recounting the birds' arrival in Argentina; the story then moves to their breeding grounds on the South American coast and, eventually, to their annual migration.

Roger Morgan-Grenville takes the listener on a journey through the ocean, through time, and into the mind of a bird. The story is told in alternating chapters by both narrator and bird. The narration switches between present day when the shearwaters are starving to take over their island home, and 100 years later when they have achieved their goal, but have lost more than they ever had.