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Author(s):	Gisli Palsson

Date:	2024	Format:	rar	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0691230986
Pages:	328	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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How an iconic birds final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinction

The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gsli Plsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species.

Plsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone. At the time, the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon. Plsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them, and how the naturalists Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concernand as something that could be caused by humans.

Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Plssons own North Atlantic travels,
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