When city girl Nancy moves to a small coastal Maine town she meets Mariner, the Great Blue heron with a GPS tracking device on its back. We follow the actual tracking data of this real-life heron through the story as a lobster fisherman’ s son and a mysterious naturalist with an uncanny way with animals take Nancy in hand with engaging results.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
Marnie Reed Crowell is a natural history writer with an MS in Biology from University of Pennsylvania, married to St Lawrence University ecology professor, now retired. She has written a number of books based on nature such as Great Blue: The Odyssey of a Great Blue Heron (Times Books 1980), as well as magazine articles for such publications as Audubon, Natural History, and others.