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What must it be like to hold a wild bird not much larger than a small child, and know for certain that within your arms, you are holding the last one of a species? Inspired by a true story of 19th century European explorers who killed an entire species of a beautiful Penguin-like bird called the Great Auk, in order to sell the carcasses to museums around the world, this is a tale of a young man joining a hunting ship to the Arctic in the hope of finding a remaining live specimen. A historical novel about love, obsession and extinction.
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The Collector of Lost Things, Jeremy Page
- Language
- Released
- 2013
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Collector of Lost Things
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jeremy Page
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1408704404
- ISBN13
- 9781408704400
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Travel, Historical Fiction, Adventure
- Rating
- 3.2 out of 5
- Description
- What must it be like to hold a wild bird not much larger than a small child, and know for certain that within your arms, you are holding the last one of a species? Inspired by a true story of 19th century European explorers who killed an entire species of a beautiful Penguin-like bird called the Great Auk, in order to sell the carcasses to museums around the world, this is a tale of a young man joining a hunting ship to the Arctic in the hope of finding a remaining live specimen. A historical novel about love, obsession and extinction.