Field Notes from an Extinction: A Novel

Told in the vernacular of the day, this novel-as-notebook features a nineteenth-century ornithologist on a remote Irish island-from the author of indie favoriteThe Gospel of Orla.

Field Notes from an Extinctionfollows 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 is single-minded and self-righteous, brilliant and bumbling. He is determined to set the record straight o...