The last of its kind: the search for the Great Auk and the discovery of extinction.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. 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..... More