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Southborough: Errol Fuller, 1999. 448pp, colour photographic d/j with title in white to green spine. Signed by author at title page, some shelfwear. Small tear which has been repaired internally to d/j front cover at top corner. Further small tear to d/j at top of spine. Front d/j flap creased, d/j corners rubbed.. Signed By Author. First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Garefowls, Penguins of the North, Riesenalks, Apponaths, Great Auks - all of these were names for a sea bird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind. The birds existence ended on the morning of the third day of June 1844, when the last two recorded great auks were killed by three fishermen on the island of Eldey. a few miles south of Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean. For thousands of years, until not so long before that fateful day, great auks swam the Atlantic in their millions and flocked to their breeding grounds from Newfoundland in the west, to Iceland and the Outer Hebrides in the east. Whole colonies at a time were hunted to death for their meat, feathers, and fat by sailors and fishermen from Europe and the Americas. Since the total vanishing of the species, the great auk has become an icon of extinction, alongside the dodo, the passenger pigeon, and the moa. More highly prized as a trophy than any other extinct bird, all its attributes - from its eggs to the oral history of its demise - were until fairly recently, voraciously collected. Its protean appearance in almost every artistic and visual form, from cigarette boxes to bronze and marble statues, has immortalised one of the most tragic man-made extinctions. The Great Auk: The Extinction of the Original Penguin tells this tale of destruction and of what we, as a species, do to the world around us. Errol Fuller is a world-renowned authority on extinct birds and the author of many books concerned with extinction and conservation.
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- Title The Great Auk
- Author Fuller, Errol
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher Errol Fuller, Southborough
- Date 1999
- ISBN 9780953355303
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THE GREAT AUK
by FULLER, ERROL
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SOUTHBOROUGH, KENT, UK: ERROL FULLER. Bound in clean blue cloth with blind-stamped titles to front board and bright gilt titles to spine, this 1999 hardcover First Edition, designed, written and published by Errol Fuller is VG in VG Jacket (unclipped).448pp with 200 color plates, this massive and exhaustive monograph on the extinct Great Auk, not seen since 1844, is a tribute to the author's eridition and commitment. Measuring 31cm x10cm and weighing 3 Kg, condition is all VG/VG . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1999.
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