Field Notes from an Extinction When NPR reporter Lulu Miller

When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing

Knowing this can help us with daily remembering tasks

from the award-winning co-author of Jerusalem

What an inventive and startling writer

and joking together in close quarters--confronts private demons

Field Notes from an Extinction When NPR reporter Lulu MillerFast paced and funny. Scientific and tender. A literary thriller featuring Auks. As if Hilary Mantel's The Giant, O'Brien met Robinson Crusoe, here is a story of one man's growing humanity amidst famine and extinction. Told in the vernacular of the day, this novel as notebook features a 19th century ornithologist on a remote Irish island from the author of indie favorite The Gospel of Orla. Written in the form of a 19th century notebook of