Gone : A Search for What Remains of the World's Extinct Creatures

• Great Auk. A majestic flightless seabird of the North Atlantic and the ‘original penguin’.
• Spectacled Cormorant. The ‘ludicrous bird’ from the remote islands of the Bering Sea. 
• Steller’s Sea Cow. An incredible ten tonne dugong with skin as furrowed as oak bark. 
• Upland Moa. The improbable birds and the one-time rulers of New Zealand. 
• Huia. The unique bird with two beaks and twelve precious tail feathers. 
• South Island Kōkako. The ‘orange-wattled crow’, New Zealand’s elusive Grey Ghost. 
• Xerces Blue. The gossamer-winged butterfly of the San Francisco sand dunes. 
• Pinta Island Tortoise. The slow-moving, long-lived giant of the Galápagos Islands. 
• Dodo. The superstar of extinction. 
• Schomburgk’s Deer. A mysterious deer from the wide floodplains of central Thailand. 

Michael Blencowe (author) lives in Sussex where he works and volunteers for several local wildlife conservation charities. For the past ten years he has been inspiring people to take action for nature through his writing and by leading wildlife events, delivering talks and putting hawk-moths on children’s noses. He is co-author of The Butterflies of Sussex (Pisces, 2017) and created the mini-book of caterpillars which accompanies Julia Donaldson’s The Woolly Bear (Macmillan, 2021). He is saving his pennies so that he can one day go to Bering Island.