Field Notes from an Extinction What an inventive and startling

What an inventive and startling writer

Ruby Tandoh traces how our culinary tastes have been transformed

and joking together in close quarters--confronts private demons

new to Nantucket and recently married to a handsome former attorney

it has reached the status of a classic that retains all of its relevance today in the face of the challenges that beset us

Field Notes from an Extinction What an inventive and startlingFast 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