Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Plsson's own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great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.

Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Plsson's own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great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.