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Harry Thurston

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Harry Thurston is the author of several collections of poetry and twelve nonfiction books, including Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy, winner of three non-fiction prizes in the Atlantic region; The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands; and A Place between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh, which received the 2005 Sigrid Olson Nature Writing Award in the United States and was shortlisted for the 2005 BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He has also written for such magazines as Audubon, Canadian Geographic, and National Geographic. Thurston lives in Nova Scotia.

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Books by Harry Thurston

of a feather

Ultramarine

Icarus, Falling of Birds

Icare, chute d’oiseaux

Lost River

Keeping Watch at the End of the World

The Deer Yard

The Atlantic Coast

Ova Aves

Animals of My Own Kind

Silver Ghost

Broken Vessel

A Ship Portrait

A Place Between the Tides

The Atlantic Canada Nature Guide

The Sea Among the Rocks

D'une rive à l'autre

Building the Bridge to PEI

Tidal Life

Nature of Shorebirds

Dawning of the Dinosaurs

Clouds Flying Before the Eye

Barefaced Stone