- Description
- 256 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- A photograph of an animal long-gone evokes a feeling of loss more than a painting ever can. Often tinted sepia or black-and-white, these images were mainly taken in zoos or wildlife parks, and in a handful of cases featured the last known individual of the species. There are some familiar examples, such as Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon, or the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, recently fledged and perching happily on the hat of one of the biologists that had just ringed it.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Atitlan Giant Grebe -- Alatora Grebe -- Pink-headed duck -- Heath Hen -- Wake Island Rail -- Laysan Rail -- Eskimo Curlew -- Passenger Pigeon -- Carolina parakeet -- Paradise Parrot -- Laughing owl -- Ivory-billed woodpecker -- Imperial woodpecker -- New Zealand bush wren -- Aldabra brush warbler -- Bachman's warbler -- Kaua'i'O'o -- O'u -- Mamo -- Po'ouli -- Guam flycatcher -- Thylacine -- Greater short-tailed bat -- Caribbean monk seal -- Yangtze river dolphin -- Quagga -- Schomburgk's deer -- Bubal hartebeest.
- ISBN
- 9781408172155
- 1408172151
- 9781408160015
- 1408160013
- OCLC
- 860815894
- Author
Fuller, Errol.
- Title
Lost animals : extinction and the photographic record / Errol Fuller.
- Imprint
London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
- Type of Content
text
still image
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.