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Description edit
It's easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid sideline, the realm of trophy fish and jackalopes or an anachronistic throwback to the dusty diorama. Yet theirs is a world of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Emily Mayer: Add a description of this character.
- David
- Bruce
- Ken Walker
- Walter Potter
- Roy Chapman Andrews
- Carl Akeley
- Damien Hirst
- John Matthews
- William Hornaday
- Hawkins
- Pat Morris
- Ward
- Colette
- Behring
- Charles Waterton
- Hatfi
- Roy Orbison
- Jack Fishwick
- Rockwell
- Charles Darwin
- Paul Rhymer
- Cock Robin
- Mary Jobe Akeley
- Mead
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Chinnery
- Peale
- Astley
- Kish
First Sentence edit
"The sight of a particularly fine animal, either alive or dead, excites within me feelings of admiratino that often amount to genuine affection; and the study and preservation of such forms had for years been my chief delight."
Table of Contents edit
1 SCHWENDEMAN'S TAXIDERMY STUDIO
2 THE CHAMPIONS
3 THE MAN WHO HUNTED FOR SCIENCE
4 HOW THE ORANGUTAN GOT ITS SKIN
5 THE CHAIRBITCH
6 MR. POTTER'S MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES
7 IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA
8 KEN AND THE IRISH ELK
9 I STUFF A SQUIRREL
10 GRAY SQUIRREL, YELLOW DAWN
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Acknowledgments
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Well-Designed Book Covers. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Melissa Milgrom (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 8, 2010
ISBN: 9780618405473
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 8, 2010
ISBN: 9780618405473
Page Count: 304
Awards edit
- Amazon Best of the Month (March 2010: Fiction, #9)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: QL63 .M55 2010
- Dewey: 590.752
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Biological Sciences › Zoology
- Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Zoology
- Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Animals
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Adventurers & Explorers
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
- Books › Home & Garden › Crafts & Hobbies
- Books › Outdoors & Nature › Fauna
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Melissa Milgrom: Author's website.
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