The last of its kind : The search for the great Auk and the discovery of extinction.
Pálsson, Gísli.; ProQuest (Firm)
2024
QL696.C42 P35 2024
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Title The last of its kind : The search for the great Auk and the discovery of extinction.
Author Pálsson, Gísli.
ISBN 9780691230993
0691230994
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
Call Number QL696.C42 P35 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification 508
Access Note Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Cover
Contents
List of Color Plates
Preface: The Lost Bird
Chapter 1. The Road to Extinction
Chapter 2. A Very Victorian Quest
Chapter 3. An Awkward Trip to Iceland
Chapter 4. Arriving
Chapter 5. Rebooting
Chapter 6. ""Proud Birds, with Their Heads High
Chapter 7. Questions In, and Out of, Time
Color Plates
Chapter 8. The Latest Successful Trip
Chapter 9. The Human Drama
Chapter 10. Newtonian Extinction
Chapter 11. The Last Great Auk
Afterword: On the Brink
Timeline
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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