Atlas of Extinct Animals (Large Encyclopedias of Animals) Hardcover – February 22, 2022 by Radek Maly

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Author: Maly Radek

Package Dimensions: 0x330x788

Number Of Pages: 88

Release Date: 22-02-2022

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The first book in this series presents animals that once walked the Earth, but have vanished due to the actions of humankind.

In this book, award-winning poet Radek Malý tells the stories of fortyone extinct species and studies the causes of their sad demise. The large-format Atlas of Extinct Animals is supplemented with beautifully expressive full-page illustrations by gifted artist Jiří Grbavčič and detailed pictures by renowned scientific illustrator Pavel Dvorský. The gorgeous, detailed depictions and descriptions of species and their fates can only serve as a reminder and as a warning of how much life has already disappeared from the Earth. The atlas also shows that the disappearances continue. Page by page it nears the present day and ultimately introduces creatures that still existed a few years ago, like the Zanzibar leopard (until 1996) and the Chinese river dolphin (until 2007). In the end, we are left with a bitter question: Which creature will next be added to this atlas? This book was selected by White Ravens 2020 for the annual catalog of book recommendations in the field of international children’s and youth literature.
Review
Some of these animals died out thousands of years ago, but some of them still walked the earth a few years ago and now they are gone. Read about the impact of humankind on nature and how easy a whole species can vanish from the Earth‘s surface and let us wonder – will humankind become the next chapter? „And they all lived happily ever after. The fairy-tale adage applies to none of the 41 creatures introduced in this atlas. Mammoth, dodo, and Neanderthal man: all extinct.“ White Ravens review
About the Author
Radek Malý is a Czech writer, poet, translator and university teacher. Of his works, his book for young adults Franz Kafka – A Man of His Time and Our Own (2017) and the collection of poems for children Postman Wind (2011; entered on the IBBY Honour Roll) have achieved international success./Pavel Dvorský has illustrated dozens of publications, with scientific and popular-scientific themes predominating, is a teacher at the Secondary School for the Decorative Arts in Brno (Czech Republic), and since 2004 he has maintained a certain variety in his work by designing stamps for the Czech Post Office.
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Remembering the dead/Mammoth/Megaladapis/Giant moa/Haast’s eagle/Elephant bird/Aurochs/Dodo/Rodrigues rail/Steller’s sea cow/Saddle-backed rodrigues giant tortoise/Bluebuck/Sardinian pika/Mascarene parrot/ Great auk/Galápagos tortoise/Atlas bear/Falkland islands wolf/Quagga/Tarpan/Lyall’s wren/Long-tailed hopping mouse/Rocky mountain locust/Bulldog rat/Japanese wolf/Huia/Passenger pigeon/Carolina parakeet/Achdari/Heath hen/Thylacin/Grey’s wallaby/Pink-headed duck/Caribbean monk seal/Tecopa pupfish/Alaotra grebe/Golden toad/‘ō‘ū/Zanzibar leopard/Pyrenean ibex/Chinese river dolphin/Neanderthal