Aurochs and Auks : Essays on mortality and extinction

Name: Aurochs and Auks
Brand: Little Toller Books
SKU: 9781908213891
Price: 2500 KES
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ISBN: 9781908213891

by John Burnside

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1908213892

ISBN-13 9781908213891

Publisher Little Toller Books

Imprint Little Toller Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 18th, 2021

Weight 344 grams

Dimensions 15.70 x 23.30 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Memoirs Memoirs Literary essays Essays Wildlife: general interest

KSh 2,500.00

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Essays on extinction, death, renewal and continuity by the acclaimed writer and poet. Prompted by his own near death experience Burnside reflects on the stories of the auroch, the great auk, and of humanity.

Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John Burnside explores the history of the auroch (Bos primigenius), the wild cattle that has become the source of so much sacred and cultural imagery across Europe, from the Minotaur and the Cretan bull dances to Spanish corrida traditions. He then tells the story of the Great Auk, a curious bird whose extinction in the mid-nineteenth century was caused by human persecution and before stepping into multiple extinctions of the outer and inner world.

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