| ISBN |
0691230986 (hardcover)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9780691230986 (hardcover)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9780691230993 (e-book)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 原文の言語 |
アイスランド語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
488.6
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| 個人著者標目 |
Gísli Pálsson,
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| 生没年等 |
1949-
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| 統一タイトル |
Fuglinn sem gat ekki flogið.
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| 本タイトル |
The last of its kind :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
the search for the great auk and the discovery of extinction /
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| 著者名 |
Gísli Pálsson ; [translation, Anna Yates].
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| その他のタイトル |
Search for the great auk and the discovery of extinction
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
Princeton, New Jersey :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Princeton University Press,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
[2024],
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| 数量 |
xxvi, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustrations (some color), maps, facsimiles ;
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| 大きさ |
23 cm
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| 一般注記 |
Translation of: Fuglinn sem gat ekki flogið.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-280) and index.
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| 内容注記 |
Preface: The lost bird -- The road to extinction -- A very Victorian quest -- An awkward trip to Iceland -- Arriving -- Rebooting -- "Proud birds, with their heads high" -- Questions in, and out of, time -- The latest successful trip -- The human drama -- Newtonian extinction -- The last great auk -- Afterword: On the brink -- Timeline.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
"The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gísli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species. Pálsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone. At the time, the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon. Pálsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them, and how the naturalists' Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern--and as something that could be caused by humans. Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Pálsson's own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great auk opens a window onto the human causes of mass extinction"-- Provided by publisher.
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| 言語注記 |
In English, translated from the Icelandic.
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| 著者標目 |
Yates, Anna,
1955-
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| 団体名(副出標目) |
Princeton University Press.
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| 一般件名 |
Great auk.
Great auk -- History. |
| 資料情報1 |
『The last of its kind :
the search for the great auk and the discovery of extinction /』 Gísli Pálsson ; [translation, Anna Yates]. Princeton University Press, [2024],
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/488.6/G53/L
資料コード：7118530263）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352068197 |
