Errol Fuller

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Errol Fuller

Errol Fuller (born June 19, 1947 in London ) is a British author and draftsman who mainly deals with extinct animal species.

Live and act

Fuller is the son of Errol Fuller senior, who was born in Calcutta, India in 1921 and died in London in 1986. He grew up in South London and went to Addey and Stanhope School.

In 1987, Fuller's first work, Extinct Birds , was published by Penguin Books , an update of Walter Rothschild's 1907 book of the same name. Miriam Rothschild wrote the foreword and in 2000 a second revised edition was published by Oxford University Press. In 1990, the book Kiwis was published in collaboration with the New Zealand illustrator Raymond Harris-Ching . In 1995 the work The Lost Birds of Paradise followed, about birds of paradise and their hybrids . In 1999 the book The Great Auk appeared on the giant aalk and in 2002 Dodo - From Extinction to Icon . In the same year, Fuller wrote an introductory essay on recently extinct bird species for the seventh volume Jacamars to Woodpeckers of the Handbook of the Birds of the World . In 2004 the catalog Lost Worlds. National Council for Culture, Arts and Heritage, Doha, Qatar published in the two languages ​​English and Arabic. In 2010 a book about the engraver Hedley Fitton (1857–1929) was published

Fuller also made himself available as an expert for British television. In 2001, for example, he shot the Riesenalk episode from the Extinct series with Julian Pender Hume . In 2007, the documentary The Dodo's Guide to Surviving Extinction followed, also with Hume and Edward O. Wilson, and in 2010 he took part in an episode of the BBC series The One Show .

John the Revelator. Portrait of a Snooker Player by Errol Fuller

In his own drawings, Fuller often devotes himself to sporting events, particularly boxing and snooker .

Works

Books

  • Errol Fuller: Extinct Birds. Penguin Books, 1987, ISBN 0-670-81787-2 .
  • Errol Fuller: Kiwis. Seto Publishing Auckland, 1990, ISBN 0-908697-49-X .
  • Errol Fuller: The Lost Birds of Paradise. 1995, Swan Hill Press, ISBN 1-85310-566-X .
  • Errol Fuller: The Great Auk. 1999, ISBN 0-9533553-0-6 .
  • Errol Fuller: Extinct Birds Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-850837-9 .
  • Errol Fuller: Dodo - From Extinction To Icon. HarperCollins, 2002, ISBN 0-00-714572-1 .
  • Errol Fuller: The Dodo: Extinction in Paradise Bunker Hill Publ, 2003, ISBN 1-59373-002-0 .
  • Errol Fuller: The Great Auk - The Extinction of the Original Penguin Bunker Hill Publ, 2003, ISBN 1-59373-003-9 .
  • Errol Fuller: Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age Bunker Hill Publ, 2004, ISBN 1-59373-018-7 .
  • Errol Fuller: Lost Worlds. National Council for Culture, Arts and Heritage, Doha, Qatar 2004, ISBN 99921-58-29-8 .
  • Errol Fuller: Dana Quarry and its Dinosaurs. Dinosauria International, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9533553-3-4 .
  • Errol Fuller: Hedley Fitton - The Accent of Truth. Southern Cross the Dog Publishing, 2010.
  • Errol Fuller: Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise. 2012. (with Sir David Attenborough )
  • Errol Fuller: Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record , Bloomsbury Natural History, 2013, ISBN 978-1408172155
  • Errol Fuller: Voodoo Salon , Summers Place Auctions, Billingshurst., Sussex, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9533553-4-1
  • Errol Fuller: The Passenger Pigeon , University Press Group Ltd, 2014, ISBN 978-0691162959
  • Errol Fuller: Elephant , Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0691191324

Others

Magazine article

  • Errol Fuller: Voyage of a Painter. In: Natural History. New York, April 1998, pp. 12-14.

Filmography

literature

  • Richard Milner: Darwin's Universe - Evolution From A to Z. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-24376-7 .
  • Errol Fuller. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2011. Biography in Context, Online , accessed August 14, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Errol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH London