Columbus, Christopher – 113
Cook, Captain James – 127
Cooper, James Fenimore – 172
Cortez, Hernando – 159
Curlew – see Eskimo Curlew
Dampier, William – 71
Darwin, Charles – 74, 109
de Carlo Sowerby, Arthur – 96
de Flacourt, Sieur Etienne – 28
de Labourdonnais, Mahé – 36
Delano, Amasa – 72
Diamond, Jared – 141
Dodge, Colonel Richard Irving – 162
Dodo – Raphus cucullatus (1680) – 21
Du Quesne, Marquis Henri – 34
Dunlop, William – 173
Eastern American Bison – see Black Bison
Edwards, George – 139
Elephant Bird – Aepyornis maximus (1700) – 27
Eskimo Curlew – Numenius borealis (1985) – 113
Floreana Island Galapagos Tortoise – Chelonoidis nigra nigra (1876) – 71
Foulis, Dr. James – 123
Frost, John – 174
Fulinski, Benedyct – 44
Galapagos Tortoise – see Floreana Island Galapagos Tortoise
Garefowl – see Great Auk
Giant Moa – Dinornis maximus (1850) – 65
Giant Swamphen – Porphyrio albus (1830) – 121
Gilbert, Captain Thomas – 122
Gilgamesh Poet – 41
Gould, John – 85, 154
Great Auk – Alca (pinguinus) impennis (1844) – 101
Greenway, J. C. – 130
Gunther, Albert – 37
Hamilton-Smith, Lt. Colonel – 110
Hawaiian Oahu O-O – Moho aplicalus (1837) – 127
Heath Hen – Tympanuchus cupido cupido (1933) – 179
Herbert, Sir Thomas – 21, 33
Herodotus – 47, 53
Hodgson, C. P. – 79
Honeyeaters – see Hawaiian Oahu O-O
Horse, Wild – see Tarpan
Hough, Arthur Beetle – 181
Ivory-billed Woodpecker – Campephilus principalis (1972) – 133
Jennison, George – 97
Joliffe, Surgeon John – 29
Kangaroo Wolf – see Thylacine
Knopwood, Reverend Robert – 83
L’Estrange, Sir Hamon – 23
Layard, Sir Austen – 146
Leguat, Francois – 24, 35
Lion – see Atlas Golden Lion
Littell, Eliakim – 55
Mackay, H. S. – 87
Mauritian Tortoise – Geochelone inepta (1700) – 33
McCulloch, Alan – 124
Mee, Arthur – 89
Migratory Dove – see Passenger Pigeon
Moa – see Giant Moa
Newton, Professor A. – 104
Nuttal, Thomas – 180
Onager, Syrian – see Assyrian Onager
O-O – see Hawaiian Oahu O-O
Ox – see Aurochs
Oxley, William – 84
Packard, Dr. A. S. – 115
Parkhurst, Anthonie – 102
Passenger Pigeon – Ectopistes migratorius (1914) – 167
Peake, Harold J. E. – 49
Pernetty, Dom – 108
Pigeon – see Passenger Pigeon
Pliny the Elder – 43, 54, 93
Polack, Joel S. – 65
Polo, Marco – 27
Porter, Admiral David – 73
Quagga – Equus quagga quagga (1883) – 139
Ridgeway, William – 148
Roosevelt, Theodore – 136
Rukh – see Elephant Bird
Sea Cow – see Steller’s Sea Cow
Shamanu – Canis lupus hodophilax (1904) – 77
Sheridan, General Philip H. – 163
Smith, George – 86
Steller, Georg Wilhelm – 59, 60, 61
Steller’s Sea Cow – Hydrodamalis gigas (1767) – 59
Strachey, William – 168
Swamphen – see Giant Swamphen
Swenk, Myron H. – 116
Tarpan – Equus feras feras (1887) – 47
Tatton, James – 22
Taylor, Reverend Richard – 68
Temminck, Coenraad Jacob – 78, 129
Thylacine – Thylacinus cynocephalus (1936) – 83
Tiger, Bali – see Bali Tiger
Tiger, Tasmanian – see Thylacine
Toolache Wallaby – Wallabia greyi (1940) – 153
Toppen, Max – 48
Tortoise, Galapagos – see Floreana Galapagos Tortoise
Tortoise, Mauritian – see Mauritian Tortoise
Vancouver, Captain George – 128
Vojnick, Baron Oscar – 95
Wallaby, Toolache – see Toolache Wallaby
Warrah Wolf-Fox – Disicyon australis (1876) – 107
Wild Horse – see Tarpan
Wild Ox – see Aurochs
Williams, Reverend William – 66
Wilson, Alexander – 134, 179
Wolf, Falkland – see Warrah
Wolf-Fox – see Warrah
Wolf Japanese – see Shamanu
Wolf, Tasmanian – see Thylacine
Wood, William – 169
Wood Jones, Professor F. – 155
Woodpecker, Ivory-billed – see Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Xenophon – 145
Yakovlev, Petr – 62
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many thanks to Róisín Magill for her advice and assistance in the creation of this book. Thanks also to Peter Sanger of the Antigonish Review, Boris Castel of Queen’s Quarterly, Karen Mulhallen of Descant, and Charise Foster of CV2 – all of whom published excerpts from Nevermore in their magazines. And to the late Robert Wagner, who broadcast a sequence of these poems on CBC Radio; as well as to the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Writer’s Trust George Woodcock Fund for their generous financial assistance.
I also wish to acknowledge my editor Allan Briesmaster for his wise counsel and patience; my designer Julie McNeill for an inspired and creative transformation of the manuscript into this beautiful book; and to the editors and staff of Quattro Books: Beatriz Hausner, John Calabro, Luciano Iacobelli, Sonia Di Placido, Lisa Young and Maddy Curry, for their enthusiastic commitment to this publication.
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Maurice Wilson – pages 52, 82, 92, 106, 138, 144, 152, 158
Mick Loates – pages 5, 58, 82, 100, 178
Tim Bramfitt – pages 20, 26, 32, 64, 70, 132, 166
Peter Hayman – pages 120, 126
Augsburg Artist – page 40
Richard Lydeckker – page 46
John James Audubon – page 112
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Day was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. His first book The Cowichan (based on his timber camp journals) was published in 1975. In 1978, Day published A Tolkien Bestiary, the first of his six internationally best-selling books on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Day has travelled extensively, and lived in England, Greece and Spain. He currently lives in Toronto.
David Day’s landmark book on animal extinction, the Doomsday Book of Animals – with an introduction by the Duke of Edinburgh – was selected in 1981 as a “Book of the Year” by Time Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Observer, and New Scientist. This was followed by the Whale War (1987), Eco-Wars (1988), Encyclopedia of Vanished Species (1989), and Noah’s Choice (1990). Day has also been an environmental columnist for Britain’s Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times, and Punch Magazine. His Punch columns became the books True Tales of Environmental Madness in 1990 and The Complete Rhinoceros in 1994.
In 1996 he wrote the Lost Animals British Channel Four and Japanese NHK TV series of one hundred five-minute documentaries on extinct species. It was narrated by the Oscar-winning actress Greta Scacchi, and later was translated into 20 languages. His Whale War was the basis of a
British ITV documentary.
David Day has also written six illustrated books of animal stories and three illustrated books of animal poems for children. His Emperor’s Panda was runner-up for both the Governor General’s Award and the National Library Award. His CBC and National Magazine award-winning poems have been praised by both the Canadian poet Al Purdy and the British poet laureate Ted Hughes.