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The Passenger Pigeon [scratch & dent]

The Passenger Pigeon [scratch & dent] Hardcover - 2014

by Fuller, Errol

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Princeton University Press, 2014. Hardcover. As new/New. A new copy with a badly bumped corner. At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end of the century, the most common bird in North America had vanished from the wild. In 1914, the last known representative of her species, Martha, died in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoo.This stunningly illustrated book tells the astonishing story of North America's Passenger Pigeon, a bird species that--like the Tyrannosaur, the Mammoth, and the Dodo--has become one of the great icons of extinction. Errol Fuller describes how these fast, agile, and handsomely plumaged birds were immortalized by the ornithologist and painter John James Audubon, and captured the imagination of writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain. He shows how widespread deforestation, the demand for cheap and plentiful pigeon meat, and the indiscriminate killing of Passenger Pigeons for sport led to their catastrophic decline. Fuller provides an evocative memorial to a bird species that was once so important to the ecology of North America, and reminds us of just how fragile the natural world can be.
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  • Title The Passenger Pigeon [scratch & dent]
  • Author Fuller, Errol
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Date 2014
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 14406U
  • ISBN 9780691162959 / 0691162956
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 7.2 x 0.8 in (24.38 x 18.29 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.65

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About the author

Errol Fuller is an acclaimed artist and writer, and a world authority on bird and animal extinction. His many books include "Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record" (Princeton), "Extinct Birds," and "Dodo: From Extinction to Icon."

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