Field Notes from an Extinction

Field Notes from an Extinction - Paperback

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Field Notes from an Extinction - Paperback

Field Notes from an Extinction - Paperback

by Eoghan Walls
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Book Overview

Fast-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 ornithological observations, Field Notes from an Extinction follows 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 (pinguinus impennis).

Green'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.

Green 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.
ISBN9781644215340
Author Eoghan Walls
PublisherSeven Stories Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Eoghan Walls

EOGHAN WALLS is a Northern Irish poet. He has lived and worked in Ireland, Britain, Germany and Rwanda. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, and his poetry has been shortlisted for multiple international awards, including the Bridport Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize and the Piggott Prize. He has published the first major translation of Heidegger's poetical works and currently teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University. The Gospel of Orla (Seven Stories Press; 2023), his debut novel, was an IndieNext and a Library Reads selection, and was called "utterly convincing and fresh and original" by Colm Tóibín. His new novel is Field Notes from an Extinction.

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