The Last of Its Kind

From award–winning French writer Sibylle Grimbert comesThe Last of Its Kind,a moving story of friendship, trust, respect, and the desire to endure and survive.

In 1835, Gus, a young zoologist, is sent to Iceland by the Natural History Museum of Lille to study North Atlantic fauna. It is there that he witnesses the bloody massacre of a colony of great auks. Amidst the violence, the curious researcher pulls a single wounded bird from the water, unaware that he has recovered what will eventuall...