<p><b><i>The first book in the <i>Large Encyclopedias series</i> presents animals that once walked the Earth but have vanished due to the actions of humankind.</i></b></p><p><span>In </span><span><i>Atlas of Extinct Animals</i></span><span>, award-winning poet Radek Malý tells the stories of forty-one extinct species and studies the causes of their sad demise.</span></p><p><span>The large-format in </span><span><i>Atlas of Extinct Animals</i></span><span> is supplemented with beautifully expressive full-page illustrations by gifted artist Jiri Grbavcic and detailed pictures by renowned scientific illustrator Pavel Dvorsky.</span></p><p><span>The gorgeous, detailed depictions and descriptions of species and their eventual extinction serves as a reminder and a warning of how much life has already disappeared from the Earth.</span></p><p><span>The atlas also shows that species continue