In the beginning, before the maps were drawn and the ships were built, there was an island. And on the island, there was a bird. She was not beautiful. She was not fast. She could not fly. But she was whole - ten million years of evolution in a world that had never given her a reason to be afraid. Then the men came. With their hunger and their pigs and their rats and their terrible casual cruelty. And they unmade a world that had been whole, and they learned nothing. The Last Dodo tells the story of the most famous extinction in human history - not as science, not as trivia, but as a fairy tale. A dark one. The kind that doesn't end well, because the truth doesn't end well, and someone has to say so. Illustrated throughout. Brief, brutal, and necessary.