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Who Killed the Great Auk par Jeremy Gaskell / Très bon
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Très bon
- Remarques du vendeur
- Book Title
- Who Killed the Great Auk?
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology, Birdwatching Guides
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Modified Item
- No
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- Nature, Science
- Pages
- 227
- Age Level
- Adults
- Special Attributes
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780198564782
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 18.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Information
The Great Auk is one of the world's most famous extinct birds. It was undoubtedly a most curious creature: a flightless bird with tiny wings, it stood upright like a human, and sported an enormous beak. On land, the Great Auk was clumsy and awkward, but it was perfectly adapted for swift and efficient movement in the sea, where it spent the large part of the year. In its heyday, it populated the North Atlantic, from Western Europe across to North America, and was a familiar sight to islanders and coastal dwellers when, each May, it would climb ashore for the short breeding season. Yet by the mid-nineteenth century sightings of the bird were but rare occurrences, and just a few decades later even the most assiduous Victorian explorers could not find it. So what happened to the Great Auk? What - or who - caused it to disappear from the northern oceans? Jeremy A. Gaskell draws on eyewitness accounts spanning some four centuries to relate the tale of the Great Auk's extinction. He tells how the Great Auk was hunted by sailors, coastal dwellers, and merchants for its ample flesh, its eggs, and its soft down. He shows how the fate of the Great Auk was inextricably bound up with the prevailing social, economic, and political conditions of the late 18th century. It was also a result of widespread scientific misapprehensions about the nature and geographical range of this mysterious seabird. The disappearance of the Great Auk had a considerable impact on the public imagination of the late 19th Century. Specimens of the birds or their eggs soon began to fetch astronomical prices among collectors. Charles Kingsley used the last Great Auk as a character in The Water Babies. It became the stuff of legend. More importantly, its plight keenly interested a number of great Victorian ornithologists, men like John Wolley, Alfred Newton, and John James Audubon. Later, these self-same men were to cause some of the very first legislation on seabird protection to come into place. As a result this is also the story of the beginnings of bird conservation. This intriguing book takes the reader on a tour of some of the wildest and coldest places on earth, in its attempt to uncover the history of the last days of the Great Auk. We travel with Audubon to Labrador, sail to the remote Scottish island of St Kilda, experience the hardship of life in the colonies of Newfoundland, and follow the peregrinations of intrepid naturalists as they put to sea in search of the very last of the Great Auks. The text is enhanced by numerous maps, photographs, and line drawings, and includes a fine original colour frontispiece by Jan Wilczur.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198564783
ISBN-13
9780198564782
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1831836
Product Key Features
Book Title
Who Killed the Great Auk?
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology, Birdwatching Guides
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Nature, Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ql696.C42g34 2000
Reviews
'"This little book is a fitting memorial to the lost penguin of the northern seas. It's a labour of love."'Evening Standard, Monday 27th November 2000, '"This little book is a fitting memorial to the lost penguin of thenorthern seas. It's a labour of love."'Evening Standard, "Gaskell combines natural history, exploration, and social history into a single gripping tale. He describes the social conditions that led to the Great Auk's demise but also tells why so little is known of the bird despite its fmiliatriy to naturalists." --Library Journal
Table of Content
Introduction - Who killed the Great Auk?1. This rare and noble bird2. Geirfuglasker: The Icelandic bird skerries3. Travels with Audubon in Labrador4. Westward ho!5. A visit to Funk Island6. Books of authority7. Wild foulis biggand - The Great Auk on St. Kilda8. The New-Found-Land9. Uncouth regions10. Mercenary and cruel11. The old wisdom of the Faeroe Islands12. In search of the Great Auk13. Last appearances14. Generation after generation15. Bird protection: A pressing need16. An Act of ParliamentEpilogueAppendices: Description of the Great Auk based on a specimen acquired by Audubon in London; Discussion of Great Auk nomenclature; Abridged version of the Act for the Preservation of Sea Birds, 1869; The Victorian egg collectors.
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
00-044623
Dewey Decimal
333.95/833
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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