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Albatrosses are highly threatened and in the public eye; they are theultimate seabirds, living almost their entire lives at sea. The RSPB currently has a big campaign to help save them.This book is both an authoritative book covering all the world'sspecies and a beautiful work of art to admire. It is illustrated with300 breathtaking colour photographs from an award-winning photographer.The text comprises a series of essays by leading experts in the fieldand a systematic section that gives identification, behavioural anddistributional information for each of the world's 22 species.