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Language: English
Published by HARPERCOLLINS @ PUBLISHERS, LONDON, 2002
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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A red coloured hardback, with beautiful gilt titles running along the spine, comes with nice, clean, not price clipped, dust jacket. This wonderful book is in fine condition and as its a used book, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. This fabulous book has hardly been used or read. First Edition published in Great Britain by Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, in 2002, printed and bound in Italy by Johnson Editorial Ltd, Italy. 180 pages all intact and tight binding. "Dodo; From Extinction" to Icon, is the most comprehensive illustrated guide to this intriguing bird, its history, natural history, and its literary and cultural legacy. The mythology surrounding the Dodo has grown ever since it became extinct. Lewis Carroll's use of the Dodo in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, elevated the bird to fantastical status and sparked a spate of Dodo characters in newspapers, adverts, and cartoons. In the fifth chapter of this book, the author examines how man has incorporated the image of the Dodo into literature and the arts, to become the powerful cultural icon that it is today.…
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- Title
- Dodo : From Extinction to Icon
- Author
- Fuller, Errol
- Publisher
- HARPERCOLLINS @ PUBLISHERS, LONDON
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0007145721
- ISBN 13
- 9780007145720
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 0.8 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 21 centimeters width by 21.5 centimeters height by 2.5 centimeters depth
The most comprehensive illustrated guide to the Dodo: its history, natural history, and its literary and cultural legacy. A beautifully illustrated and fascinating account by a true expert.
The extinction of the Dodo from the shores of Mauritius followed closely on the arrival of Dutch and Portuguese sailors on the island in the 16th Century. Using a diverse number of sources, the author describes the behaviour and myths surrounding this unusual and iconic bird.
The first three chapters investigate the Dodo's natural history through the use of historical documents, illustrations, paintings, old drawings and literary sources. Its behaviour is examined in the quotes from 16 of the written reports by travellers to the island, and the anatomy of the Dodo is investigated from the bone records kept by anatomists and naturalists from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
The mythology surrounding the Dodo has grown ever since it became extinct. Lewis Carroll’s use of the Dodo in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland elevated the bird to iconic status and sparked a spate of Dodo characters in newspapers, adverts and cartoons. In chapter four, the author investigates how man incorporated the image of the Dodo into literature and the arts to become the powerful cultural icon that it is today. He then looks more closely at two other species: the Solitary Dodo, from the island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean and the White Dodo of the Réunion Island. Both are now extinct, but are thought to have been related to the Mauritian Dodo.
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About the Author
Errol Fuller is a painter of sporting subjects, particularly boxing, who lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. His interest in the curiosities of natural history has resulted in three other books, The Lost Birds of Paradise, The Great Auk and Extinct Birds.
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