John Wolley's Garefowl Books
Will be available from 25.11.2026
The great auk is gone. The last known individuals were killed on a rocky Icelandic islet in 1844 - and the naturalist who documented this moment of extinction would unknowingly help birth an entirely new concept: that humans could drive a species to oblivion. John Wolley s Garefowl Books presents the remarkable manuscripts produced by naturalist John Wolley during an 1858 expedition to Iceland ...
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The great auk is gone. The last known individuals were killed on a rocky Icelandic islet in 1844 - and the naturalist who documented this moment of extinction would unknowingly help birth an entirely new concept: that humans could drive a species to oblivion. John Wolley s Garefowl Books presents the remarkable manuscripts produced by naturalist John Wolley during an 1858 expedition to Iceland ...
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