Dodo: The Bird behind the Legend
It is a sad tale indeed of how man’s selfish use of the world despoiled paradise and led to the Dodo’s demise along with other avian endemics and much more besides. Worse still is the fact that if we could turn back the clock, despite all we have learned, we would probably do it all again so long as humans see the natural world as their resource rather than their companion.
The book has collected together some excellent paintings, sculpture, and even fiction giving breadth to the myths as well as the facts and even speculates as to whether we could re-engineer a dodo from the remaining relatives not too forced into extinction. As sad as the subject matter may be this is a delightfully well written and presented work which I much enjoyed reading and looking at; it deserves a wide audience not just for its message but its intrinsic qualities.
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