cranes

George Duncan, an American man who owns a small print shop in London, is startled one evening when a great white crane lands in his backyard garden with an arrow through its wing. He removes it, and the crane flies off. George, a lonely man, is shaken by the event, until the next day when a startlingly gorgeous woman named Kumiko walks into his store wanting help with her artwork--and she is holding delicate feathers.

Enduring a lonely life in his London print shop, divorced American George Duncan rescues an injured white crane only to fall desperately in love with an enigmatic Japanese artist who seems to hold the potential to change his entire life.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text describe cranes and how they are used.

Examines fifteen species of cranes and their struggle to survive in a world that offers less and less space for creatures other than humans.

With the help of talking objects he finds on the way to seek advice from Hotsiko the hawk, Crane is able to save his fine fat fishies from a marauding fox from Mount Fuji.

Describes the cooperative effort by scientists in the Soviet Union and the United States to save the Siberian crane, with the support and aid of conservationists from other nations.

Rhyming verses describe the fancy clothes of Fanny the whooping crane.

Examines the characteristics, habits, and habitats of the Whooping Cranes discussing threats to its survival and efforts to save them from extinction.