The Last Great Auk: A Novel

The Last Great Auk is Allan W. Eckert's haunting and deeply researched novel about the extinction of one of the North Atlantic's most remarkable birds. Blending meticulous historical detail with vivid storytelling, Eckert reconstructs the final decades of the great auk, a flightless seabird once abundant on the rocky coasts and islands of the North Atlantic but driven to extinction in the mid-19th century by hunting, egg collecting, and human exploitation.Told through a mix of historical fi...