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The Last of Its Kind : The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction / Gísli Pálsson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pálsson, Gísli, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extinct birds.
- Extinction (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Icelandic.
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "The Last of Its Kind".
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691230993
- 0691230994
- OCLC:
- 1409027927
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