Magical Journey

Author: Nigel Marven
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: "The Amazing Journey" takes us into the world of journalists and extraordinary animal travelers, following their epic long journeys across land, beneath the oceans, and through the skies. Each journey is a natural spectacle, and every animal is a remarkable migrant. A house sparrow, barely four months old after hatching, travels from the UK to South Africa, covering 10,000 kilometers in a grueling flight that makes it farther than any other animal on Earth. An Australian eel follows the ocean currents to the rivers of Australia, where it spends 15 years before returning to the depths of the Pacific to lay eggs and then dies. The astonishing 4,000-kilometer flight of a fragile Monarch butterfly, from Canada to Mexico, where it overwinters in a mountain sanctuary with millions of its kind. A newborn gray whale swims thousands of kilometers from the tropics to the Arctic Ocean. A rattlesnake migrates with extreme precision across the arid Sonoran Desert, arriving at its exact destination. Each animal's migration has a purpose—to find food, breeding grounds, or wintering habitats. If they fail to reach their destination, it's better to die. In "The Amazing Journey," we travel with them, sharing their successes and bearing their failures, and witnessing their incredible perseverance and navigational prowess.