Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Archaeology / Anthropology    3. Creoles    4. Ethnic identity    5. Europe - General    6. History    7. History: World    8. Mauritius    9. Racism    10. Ethnography   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Architecture, Tropical    3. Criticism    4. Mauritius    5. Modern Architecture    6. Vernacular architecture    7. History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. 18th century    2. Africa - General    3. Creole dialects    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Mauritius    8. Modern - 18th Century    9. Racially mixed people    10. Slavery    11. To 1810    12. African Studies    13. Anthropology/Ethnography    14. East Africa    15. Ethnography    16. HISTORY, WORLD    17. World history: c 1750 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. History / Asia    2. Japan,expedition,Japanese Empire,Madeira,St. Helena,Cape of Good Hope,Mauritius,Ceylon,Singapore,China,Loo-Choo,Spalding   

Subjects:  1. Asia - General    2. Asia - India & South Asia    3. General    4. History    5. History: World    6. 21st century    7. African history    8. BCE to c 500 CE    9. Geographical discovery & exploration    10. Mauritius   

Subjects:  1. Africa - General    2. Economic Conditions    3. History    4. History - General History    5. History: World    6. Slavery    7. African history: c 1500 to c 1900    8. Ethnic studies    9. History / Africa    10. Mauritius    11. Sugar workers--Mauritius--History   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Description And Travel    3. General    4. Guidebooks    5. Mauritius    6. Northwest Africa - History    7. Travel    8. Travel - Foreign    9. Cultural studies    10. Historical geography    11. Places & peoples: general interest   

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. Asia - General    3. East Indians    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Mauritius    8. Modern - 19th Century    9. Penal colonies    10. Penology    11. Prisoners, Transportation of    12. South Asia - History    13. Treatment Of Offenders    14. History / Modern / 19th Century   

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Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa - History    3. General    4. Mauritius    5. Politics / Current Events    6. African history    7. Colonization & independence   

Subjects:  1. Africa,history of Africa,description of Africa,missions,South Africa,Egypt,description of Egypt,Palestine,description of Palestine,Natal,Mauritius,Madagascar,Ceylon,travel,journey,Joseph John Freeman    2. History / Africa   

Subjects:  1. Mauritius    2. History   

Subjects:  1. Economic development    2. Education    3. Education In Developing Countries    4. Education, Colonial    5. Effect of education on    6. History    7. Literary Criticism    8. Mauritius   

Subjects:  1. Asia - India & South Asia    2. Contract labor    3. East Indians    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Indentured servants    8. Mauritius    9. South Asia - History    10. Systems Of Labor    11. African history: c 1500 to c 1900    12. Economic history    13. History / India    14. History, World | India    15. Labour economics    16. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. Asia,history,Indian Ocean,Mascarene Islands,Rodriguez,Mauritius,Java,the Cape of Good Hope,voyages,travels,Natural history,Paleontology,François Leguat of Bresse    2. History / Asia   

Subjects:  1. Caroline (Ship)    2. History    3. Java (Indonesia)    4. Mauritius    5. Tasmania   

Reviews (3)

Decent Reference to Everything Dodo...
As past reviewers have mentioned, this book is visually stunning. A very good entry level book to give a historical background on records, sketches, semi-factiods, and assumptions. Fuller makes it very clear (time and time again) that everything we think we know about the dodo is based on written records or sketches. Fuller also points out that we don't have complete facts on the legitimacy of any of the accounts. For example, some written accounts were taken from a boat that traveled by the island...the accountee not even stepping foot on the island. Furthermore, the recognizable paintings may or may not have been created from a live specimen, but a taxidermied version which may have been overstuffed. The book is a quick read, allowing the reader to form their own view and create their own image of what they belive the dodo once was. I recommend merely as a collection of visual reference and general historical accounts.

A Beautiful History of Extinction's Emblem
"As dead as a dodo."Everyone knows the phrase (and it is far clearer than the obscure doornail variant).The dodo is universally acknowledged as a symbol of extinction, not just a dead bird, not just a dead species, but an emblem of wipeout.Although everyone knows the dodo, we know almost nothing about it.It was discovered and wiped out long before the days of scientific observation.Errol Fuller has told us just about everything there is to know about the bird in _Dodo: A Brief History_ (HarperCollins).It is not as big or lush a volume as the one he produced on another goner, the great auk, but it is beautiful and fascinating. A vapid performance
Visually this book is stunning.Informative it is.But if you found a book about dinosaurs that said "we know almost nothing about them, except that there are no dinosaurs today" would you be interested?This is how Fuller starts his commentary on the dodo - "We know almost nothing...."We know more about the dodo that some dinosaurs?The author therefore finds very little of substance to say on the Dodo.The moral of the whole book is, "here are the facts but we don't really know and we can't either so there".In its attempt to be critical and parsimonious, it trips over itself in a mess of contradictions (was the Dodo grey or brown? - "it seems to have been greyish though Saftleven clearly shows the head was brown")and a script that reads like watery thin soup.
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Subjects:  1. Nature/Ecology    2. Birds (ornithology)    3. Endangered species & extinction of species    4. Mauritius    5. NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS   

Subjects:  1. Development economics    2. Economic history    3. Macroeconomics    4. Mauritius   

Subjects:  1. Africa - General    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Earth Sciences - Geography    4. Economic integration    5. Foreign economic relations    6. History    7. History: World    8. Indian Ocean Region    9. Indian Ocean Rim (Association)    10. International - Economics    11. International Relations - General    12. South Africa    13. African history    14. Australasian & Pacific history    15. Australia    16. Current Events / International    17. Economic history    18. India    19. Indian Ocean    20. International economics    21. International relations    22. Mauritius    23. Southern Africa   

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. Great Britain    3. History & Criticism - General    4. History and criticism    5. Music    6. Music Of The 19th Century    7. Social aspects    8. Castell family    9. Castell, William Joseph    10. Music / History & Criticism