Who Killed the Great Auk?
Jeremy Gaskell
Oxford University Press, 2000
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Drawing on eyewitness accounts spanning some four centuries, this study relates the tale of the Great Auk's extinction from Western Europe to North America. It tells how the Great Auk was hunted by sailors, coastal dwellers, and merchants for its ample flesh, its eggs, and its soft down.
- ISBN-13
- 9780198564782
- ISBN-10
- 0198564783
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2000
- Publication date
- 2000-11-09
- Pages
- 240
- Dimensions
- 243x165x20
- Weight
- 534