Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize How an iconic bird's 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. G sli P lsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the...
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