Cover of Aepyornis Island by H. G. Wells Ebook Aepyornis Island
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Aepyornis Island

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
22 pages
ISBN
9781787242425
Published
19 May 2017
Imprint
Fantastica
  • explorers
  • island
  • giant bird
  • Aepyornis
  • extinction
  • survival
  • natural balance
  • ecosystem
  • human impact
  • preservation

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Description

Wells on a beach with an egg. Aepyornis Island is not a team of explorers versus angry birds: one man hatches a giant Madagascar ratite, watches it grow past friendship, and learns what a god-sized chick does to a castaway. Fantastica’s ebook of the 1894 tale: scientific romance, appetite, a joke that turns. Human ambition in a shell. Short Wells, exact and unkind about who is the specimen. The extinct bird is not a mascot; it is the plot.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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