The Great Auk : Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife - A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR Genre:Popular science for every set of taste

for every set of taste buds - and for every single night of the week

teeming with scientific marvels and lessons for the future of life on this planet

and Poles-even as drug dealers plied their trade in abandoned buildings and young artists flooded in looking for cheap rents

Part love letter

she hatches a wild plan: fake a pregnancy and use the paid maternity leave to start over somewhere new

The Great Auk : Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife - A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR Genre:Popular science for every set of tasteThe life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great AukThe great auk was a flightless, goose sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy to capture, the birds were in trouble whenever sailors visited their once remote breeding colonies. Places like Funk Island, off north east Newfoundland, became scenes of unimaginable slaughter, with birds killed in their millions. By 1800 the auks of