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Who Killed the Great Auk?
by Gaskell, Jeremy
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0198564783
- ISBN 13
- 9780198564782
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Color frontis., photos, illustrations, 236 pages. Brings together the natural history and historical data relating to the Great Auk and its extinction as connected with the social, economic and political conditions of the 18th-19th century; tracing ornithologists' search for the last Great Auks through Labrador, St; Kilda and Newfoundland, and the beginnings of the Bird Protection movement. Appendixes: type specimen description, taxonomy, the 1869 Act for the Preservation of Sea Birds, Victorian egg collectors, bird species mentioned in text. Bibliography, index.. Hardcover. New/New.
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- Bookseller
- Z & Z Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013923
- Title
- Who Killed the Great Auk?
- Author
- Gaskell, Jeremy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0198564783
- ISBN 13
- 9780198564782
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BIRDS AUKS ORNITHOLOGY EXTINCTION CONSERVATION HISTORY
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