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  • Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures

    (By Michael Blencowe)

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    Author Michael Blencowe
    “Book Descriptions: Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories of eleven extinct animals, which he shares with charm and insight in  Gone .

    'Really, really well written'   – CHRIS PACKHAM
     
    Inspired by his childhood obsession with extinct species,  Blencowe takes us around the globe  – from the forests of New Zealand to the ferries of Finland, from the urban sprawl of San Francisco to an inflatable crocodile on Brighton’s Widewater Lagoon.  Spanning five centuries , from the last sighting of New Zealand’s Upland Moa to the 2012 death of the Pinta Island Giant Tortoise, Lonesome George, his memoir is peppered with the  accounts of the hunters and naturalists of the past  as well as revealing  conversations with the custodians of these totemic animals today . 
     
    Featuring  striking artworks  that resurrect these forgotten creatures, each chapter focuses on a different animal, revealing insights into  their unique characteristics and habitats ;  the history of their discovery  and  just how and when they came to be lost to us . 
     
    Blencowe inspects the only known remains of a Huia egg at Te Papa, New Zealand; views hundreds of specimens of deceased Galapagos tortoises and Xerces Blue butterflies in the California Academy of Sciences; and pays his respects to the only soft tissue remains of the Dodo in the world. Warm, wry and thought-provoking,  Gone  shows that  while each extinction story is different, all can inform how we live in the future . Discover and learn from the stories of Ivell’s Sea Anemone . A see-through sea creature known only from southern England. 
     
    A modern must-read for anyone interested in protecting our earth and its incredible wildlife,  Gone  is  an evocative call to conserve what we have before it is lost forever .
     ”

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