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Author: Will Cuppy
Edition: First Godine Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1567923658

How to Become Extinct

In these forty brief essays, the perennially perturbed Will Cuppy turns his unflinching attention on those members of the animal kingdom whose habits are disagreeable, whose appearances are repellent, and whose continued existence is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. Get How to Become Extinct literature books for free.
He is not - decidedly not - without reason. (The pike is pretty nasty as
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And while Cuppy may frequently leave in his wake more questions than answers, we surely owe him a debt of gratitude for at least asking. After all, someone has to consider the distinctions between Stoats and Ermines, or why the Age of Reptiles simply had to come to an end. And if his take on the Giant Ground Sloth is less than flattering, who are we to quibble?

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Author: Henry Ford
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