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Penobscot Bay Report - The Great Auk destroyed


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This show takes a look at a shameful period in the European colonization of Newfoundland, the Northwest atlantic tip of Canada. Ron Huber reads a selection from "New Founde Land" by Canadian writer and naturalist Farley Mowat. The section of the book describes the relentless and cruel destruction of the Great Auk, a penguinlike bird that lived in vast rookeries on the rocky coasts and islands there, by the colonists of Atlantic Canada and New England for eggs, meat, feathers, even for oil!
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