{"product_id":"field-notes-from-an-extinction","title":"Field Notes from an Extinction","description":"\u003cb\u003eFast-paced and funny. Scientific and tender. A literary thriller featuring Auks. As if Hilary Mantel's \u003ci\u003eThe Giant, O'Brien\u003c\/i\u003e met\u003ci\u003e Robinson Crusoe, \u003c\/i\u003ehere is a story of one man's growing humanity amidst famine and extinction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Orla\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in the form of a 19th-century notebook of ornithological observations, \u003ci\u003eField Notes from an Extinction \u003c\/i\u003efollows the life and work of one Ignatius Green, a fictitious English scientist dispatched by the Royal Society to the remote island of Tor Mor off the northern Irish coast. Green, a widower, is single-minded and self-righteous, brilliant and bumbling. He is determined to set the scientific record straight on the mating rituals, feeding and care of hatchlings and other minutiae he can gather about the Great Auk (\u003ci\u003epinguinus impennis\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGreen's world is shattered when his monthly goods delivery arrives ravaged by the local Irish townsmen. His fury at their impertinence is matched only by his dismay at finding a small child amid the shipment--dirty, abandoned, mute, and utterly feral and unmanageable. Worse, the locals are growing restless and hungry. And there is talk sweeping the land of a terrifying woman with unnatural power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGreen fights for his survival against brigands and hunger and, most fearsome, the resolve of a fierce and angry child. And, perhaps, for a wider understanding of family amidst roiling societal unrest.","brand":"Eoghan Walls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336438604140,"sku":"9781644215340","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9781644215340-us.jpg?v=1773849065","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/field-notes-from-an-extinction","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}