Shearwater: a bird, an ocean, and a long way home

Prologue: wrong end of the world: May 2004, Tsu City, Japan

Outward bound. The 83rd bird: 1971, Ise of Mull

Diomedes' secret: October 1984, 53.1 degrees south, 41.4 degrees west

Fantasy rabbit holes: July

The Oxbridge seabird: early August

An island full of noises: Isle of Rum

The night visitor: September, Skomer Island

Towards a southern ocean: Autumn, Mid-Atlantic

The most expensive bird in the world: Península Valdés, Argentina

Homeward bound. A cable car and a homecoming: March, West Cork, Ireland

The legend and the egg: April/May, Skomer Island

Brown-coated killers: August, the West Coast

The call of the north: August, Isle of Rum

Journey's end: August/September, Isle of Mull.