Who Killed the Great Auk?

Capa
Oxford University Press, 2000 - 227 páginas
"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.
 

Páginas selecionadas

Conteúdo

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
Direitos autorais

Uncouth regions
95

Termos e frases comuns

Alca impennis Alcidae Alfred Newton appeared Arctic Atlantic Audubon Auk's Auks Beothuk bill boat breeding grounds breeding season British Birds Cape Captain Chapter cliffs coast colonies Common Guillemot described Diver eggs eighteenth Eldey England English European evidence expedition extinction Faber Faeroe Islands feathers fishermen fishing flightless fowls Francis Willughby French Funk Island Gannets Garefowl Geirfuglasker Goose Greenland Guillemots Hákonarsson head Iceland inhabitants Isles Japetus Steenstrup John Wolley killed Kittiwakes known Labrador land late London Murres Museum Natural History naturalist nests Newfoundland nineteenth century North America Northern Northern Diver observed ornithologist Penguin Pinguinus Plautus plumage population protection published Puffins Razorbill regarded remarkable Revd Reykjanes rocks sea birds seems seen shore skerries south west species specimens St John's St Kilda Steenstrup Stuvitz taken tion told Vardø voyage Willughby wings winter Wolley's Wormius writer wrote young Zoologist

Referências a este livro

Sobre o autor (2000)

Jeremy A. Gaskell, c/o A M Gaskell, Lyndale, Luxborough, Watchet, Somerset, TA23 0SJ impennis44@hotmail.com Jeremy Gaskell's interest in the Great Auk dates from his teens, when he first planned a visit to its traditional breeding grounds in Iceland. An active ornithologist, he has travelled as far afield as Thailand, and has also acquired extensive knowledge of the birds of the Middle East. He is the author of a number of articles and academic papers on subjectsas diverse as the early history of British ornithology, and seabird identification. In 1998 he broadcast a history of the Great Auk on the BBC World Service.

Informações bibliográficas

TítuloWho Killed the Great Auk?
AutorJeremy Gaskell
Ediçãoilustrada, reimpressão
EditoraOxford University Press, 2000
ISBN0198564783, 9780198564782
Num. págs.227 páginas
  
Exportar citaçãoBiBTeX EndNote RefMan