John Wolley's Garefowl Books: The Aukward Birth of Anthropogenic Extinction

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 in search of surviving great auks. Accompanied by Alfred Newton - later Professor of Zoology at Ca...