The Great Auk Or Garefowl

Author : Grieve
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1017745803

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl: Its History, Archaeology, and Remains by Grieve Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Parkin Thomas
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021226483

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl (Alca Impennis, Linn.) by Parkin Thomas Pdf

This fascinating work provides an in-depth look at the once-abundant Great Auk, a flightless bird that went extinct in the 19th century. Parkin's book covers everything from the bird's appearance to its behavior and habitat, making it an essential read for anyone interested in natural history or extinction studies. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Great auk
ISBN : 1316155439

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl by Symington Grieve Pdf

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis, formerly Alca impennis), a flightless bird of the north Atlantic, became extinct in the mid-1850s because of over-hunting - apart from being used as a food source and as fish-bait, its down was used for feather beds, and efforts in the early nineteenth century to reduce the slaughter were not effective. The last breeding pair was killed in 1844. This 1885 work by Scottish naturalist and scientist Symington Grieve (1850-1932) collects together 'a considerable amount of literature bearing upon the 'History, Archaeology, and Remains' of this extinct bird'. The material includes articles on the historic distribution of the great auk, its known habits, its various names, and information on all the surviving specimens, whether stuffed, skeletal, bones, or eggs. The book is illustrated with drawings and lithographs of auk remains, and an appendix supplies historical and contemporary documents on the auk from all over Europe.

Author : Errol Fuller
Publisher : Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1593730039

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The Great Auk by Errol Fuller Pdf

A seabird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind, the last two recorded great auk's were killed on June 3, 1844. This book pays homage to this incredible species.

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1930585357

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl by Symington Grieve Pdf

A reprint of Symington Grieve's classic treatise on the great auk, an extinct flightless bird of northern seas.

Author : Thomas Parkin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0260827290

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl (Alca Impennis, Linn;) (Classic Reprint) by Thomas Parkin Pdf

Excerpt from The Great Auk, or Garefowl (Alca Impennis, Linn;) Mr. Seebohm3 says, It was once a British bird now it is regarded as an extinct species, like the Solitaire Pigeon of Rodriguez, the phillip-island Parrot, the Dodo of the Mauritius, and the Moa of New Zealand. The extinction of the Great Auk has taken place during the lifetime of the present generation. It is scarcely more than half a century since the last British example of this curious bird was killed in the Orkneys; and when, ten years later, the survivors of the only colony left were captured, the history of the Great Auk became a legend of the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Auks
ISBN : UCD:31175001988495

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl (Alca Impennis, Linn.) by Symington Grieve Pdf

Author : Parkin Thomas
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 131325682X

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl by Parkin Thomas Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108081474

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The Great Auk, or Garefowl by Symington Grieve Pdf

This 1885 work collects together information on the extinct great auk, including its distribution, various names, and physical remains.

Author : Thomas Parkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Great auk
ISBN : OCLC:2427834

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The Great Auk by Thomas Parkin Pdf

Author : Jessie Greengrass
Publisher : JM Originals
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473610866

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An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It by Jessie Greengrass Pdf

WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 'Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' A. L. Kennedy The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world. There are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal and metaphorical; and acts of cruelty and neglect but also of penance. Some stories concern themselves with the present, and the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs - as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic. Some stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist and doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people's dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself. Finally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account - violent, occasionally funny and certainly tragic - of the decline of the Great Auk.

Author : THOMAS. PARKIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033298948

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GREAT AUK, OR GAREFOWL (ALCA IMPENNIS, LINN;) by THOMAS. PARKIN Pdf

Author : Vincenzo Dandolo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Sericulture
ISBN : BML:37001100256192

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The Art of Rearing Silk-worms by Vincenzo Dandolo Pdf

Author : Jeremy Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198564783

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Who Killed the Great Auk? by Jeremy Gaskell Pdf

"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.

Author : Petra Tjitske Kalshoven
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857453457

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Crafting 'The Indian' by Petra Tjitske Kalshoven Pdf

In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Indian hobbyists” dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects of North American Indian lifeworlds, using ethnographies, travel diaries, and museum collections as resources. Grounded in fieldwork set among networks of Indian hobbyists in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic, this ethnography analyzes this contemporary practice of serious leisure with respect to the general human desire for play, metaphor, and allusion. It provides insights into the increasing popularity of reenactment practices as they relate to a deeper understanding of human perception, imagination, and creativity.