Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World's Extinct Creatures By: Michael Blencowe [Audiobook] | [email protected]/s | 136.96 MiB
2021-04-27 | ASIN: 0711266700 | english | 4h59m
Author: Michael Blencowe
Narrated by: Thomas Judd
"Really, really well written."Â*(Chris Packham)
Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories of 11 extinct animals, which he shares with charm and insight inÂ*Gone.
Inspired by his childhood obsession with extinct species,Â*Blencowe takes us around the globe - from the forests of New Zealand to the ferries of Finland, from the urban sprawl of San Francisco to an inflatable crocodile on Brighton’s Widewater Lagoon.Â*Spanning five centuries, from the last sighting of New Zealand’s Upland Moa to the 2012 death of the Pinta Island Giant Tortoise, Lonesome George, his memoir is peppered with theÂ*accounts of the hunters and naturalists of the pastÂ*as well as revealingÂ*conversations with the custodians of these totemic animals today.Â*
FeaturingÂ*striking artworksÂ*that resurrect these forgotten creatures, each chapter focuses on a different animal, revealing insights intoÂ*their unique characteristics and habitats;Â*the history of their discoveryÂ*andÂ*just how and when they came to be lost to us.Â*
Blencowe inspects the only known remains of a Huia egg at Te Papa, New Zealand; views hundreds of specimens of deceased Galapagos tortoises and Xerces Blue butterflies in the California Academy of Sciences; and pays his respects to the only soft tissue remains of the Dodo in the world. Warm, wry and thought-provoking,Â*GoneÂ*shows thatÂ*while each extinction story is different, all can inform how we live in the future. Discover and learn from the stories of the:Â*
Great Auk. A majestic flightless seabird of the North Atlantic and the ‘original penguin’.
Spectacled Cormorant. The ‘ludicrous bird’ from the remote islands of the Bering Sea.Â*
Steller’s Sea Cow. An incredible ten tonne dugong with skin as furrowed as oak bark.Â*
Upland Moa. The improbable birds and the one-time rulers of New Zealand.Â*
Huia. The unique bird with two beaks and twelve precious tail feathers.Â*
South Island KÅkako. The "orange-wattled crow", New Zealand’s elusive Grey Ghost.Â*
Xerces Blue. The gossamer-winged butterfly of the San Francisco sand dunes.Â*
Pinta Island Tortoise. The slow-moving, long-lived giant of the Galápagos Islands.Â*
Dodo. The superstar of extinction.Â*
Schomburgk’s Deer. A mysterious deer from the wide floodplains of central Thailand.Â*
Ivell’s Sea Anemone. A see-through sea creature known only from southern England.Â*
A modern must-listen for anyone interested in protecting our earth and its incredible wildlife,Â*GoneÂ*isÂ*an evocative call to conserve what we have before it is lost forever.
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