The Dodo and the Solitaire
Subtitle: A Natural History
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780253000996
Description: The most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: A Melancholy Visage; title: Note on Translations; title: Notes on the Text; title: List of Abbreviations; title: 1. Written Accounts of the Dodo; title: 2. Written Accounts of the Rodrigues Solitaire; title: 3. Contemporary Illustrations; title: 4. Secondary Contemporary Sources and Miscellanea; title: 5. Anatomical Evidences; title: 6. The Natural History of the Dodo and the Solitaire; title: 7. Afterword: Memories of Green; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index