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NEVERMORE: A Book of Hours is a distillation of thirty years of research and meditation by author and poet David Day, an acknowledged authority on the extinction of species. In its conception and approach, NEVERMORE is unlike any other natural history. It is shot through with a combined sense of wonder and savagery in vivid first encounters and last glimpses of each of these now vanished species. Its commentaries are a treasure trove of historic events and insights to be found nowhere else. And, through its elegies, a profoundly human response to this legacy is revealed. In NEVERMORE: A Book of Hours, we see how the fates of animals are linked to human history: Julius Caesar with the Aurochs, Marco Polo with the Elephant Bird, Christopher Columbus with the Eskimo Curlew, John Cabot with the Great Auk, Jacques Cartier with the Passenger Pigeon, Vitus Bering with the Steller Sea Cow, Charles Darwin with the Antarctic Wolf. NEVERMORE: A Book of Hours is a modern bestiary and a book of remembrance. It is beautifully illustrated by four distinguished wildlife artists; and is a tribute and requiem to vanished species. Creatures that are now as much mythical animals as the dragon and the unicorn; and can be found in the only place they may now exist: in the human imagination. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The illustrations were lovely and the contemporary observations were fascinating, but the poems just didn't do it for me. I think it must be hard to create 24 compelling literary works of art on essentially the same theme for a single volume; most of them ended up feeling forced to me.
However, I think the book accomplishes the author's primary aim of creating sympathy and grief for all of these vanished creatures, and reducing sympathy for the human slaughterers. It is very difficult to retain one's admiration for humanity when, over and over, the contemporary accounts of the species and their extinction are, "We found a new country with uncountable numbers of these animals, so innocent and unwary of us that they didn't know to run away, so of course we killed them all for fun." ( )