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Botanicum is bursting with information and glorious illustrations to excite young naturalists
from 1945 to 1959
the butterflies in his tummy get bigger and bolder – they even flutter right up to his throat
Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot
The Great Auk PG25 Botanicum is bursting with informationThe life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great Auk The great auk was a flightless, goose sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy to capture, the birds were in trouble whenever sailors visited their once remote breeding colonies. Places like Funk Island, off north east Newfoundland, became scenes of unimaginable slaughter, with birds killed in their millions. By 1800 the auks of