The last of its kind : the search for the great auk and the discovery of 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. Gísli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last gre...
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| Định dạng: | Livre numérique |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Anglais |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
2024.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès INSA CVL |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The last of its kind, the search for the great auk and the discovery of extinction, Gísli Pálsson, 2024, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1 volume (XXVI-291 pages-[8] p. de pl.), 978-0-6912-3098-6 |
Mục lục:
- Preface: The lost bird
- The road to extinction
- A very Victorian quest
- An awkward trip to Iceland
- Arriving
- Rebooting
- "Proud birds, with their heads high
- Questions in, and out of, time
- The latest successful trip
- The human drama
- Newtonian extinction
- The last great auk
- Afterword: On the brink
- Timeline