Who Killed the Great Auk?"Who Killed the Great Auk? takes us on a tour of some of the wildest and most remote communities on earth. We travel with Audubon to Labrador, sail to the remote Scottish island of St. Kilda, experience the hardship of life in the Newfoundland colonies, and follow the peregrinations of intrepid naturalists as they put to sea in search of the very last of the Great Auks."--Jacket. |
Contents
List of illustrations x | 11 |
The Icelandic bird skerries | 17 |
Travels with Audubon in Labrador | 31 |
Westward ho | 41 |
A visit to Funk Island | 49 |
Books of authority | 61 |
Wild foulis biggand the Great Auk on St Kilda | 75 |
The Newfoundland | 85 |
Mercenary and cruel | 107 |
The old wisdom of the Faeroe Islands | 117 |
In search of the Great Auk | 125 |
Last appearances | 139 |
The natural history of the Great Auk | 151 |
a pressing need | 165 |
An Act of Parliament | 177 |
Uncouth regions | 95 |
Common terms and phrases
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