Bloomsbury Publishing has announced that it will be publishing Mark Avery‘s new book A Message from Martha; The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today in late July of 2014 and subsequently in late August in the U.S.
New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
Bloomsbury Publishing has announced that it will be publishing Mark Avery‘s new book A Message from Martha; The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today in late July of 2014 and subsequently in late August in the U.S.
The Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, was so plentiful across early Nineteenth Century North America that passing flocks were said to block out the sun. By 1900 the last one found in the wild was captured and in 1914 the lone surviving member of the species died in a Cincinnati zoo.
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