The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gísli Pálsson

The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction

Gísli Pálsson with Paul Woodson (Narrator)

8 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history nature informative reflective sad slow-paced
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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...

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