Dodo at Oxford

The Unreliable Account of a Student and His Pet Dodo. In 2008 a diary was discovered amongst books donated to a charity bookshop in Oxford. It was a most remarkable book, supposedly written over 300 years ago by a student, describing his life and unusual pet, a dodo. Everyone knows the dodo, a comic [...]
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The Unreliable Account of a Student and His Pet Dodo. In 2008 a diary was discovered amongst books donated to a charity bookshop in Oxford. It was a most remarkable book, supposedly written over 300 years ago by a student, describing his life and unusual pet, a dodo. Everyone knows the dodo, a comic and ungainly bird, the sad symbol of extinction. But what was a living dodo really like? The diarist was a student of science and recorded his pet's every move as well as the reactions of friends and acquaintances. Doubts have been cast over the authenticity of the diary, so every page has been photographed and reprinted to enable readers to judge for themselves.