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Item Details
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THE AUTHENTIC ANIMAL
INSIDE THE ODD AND OBSESSIVE WORLD OF TAXIDERMY |
| By: |
Dave Madden |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1250014727 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781250014726 |
| Publisher: |
GRIFFIN PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
14 January, 2013 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Why would someone create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? In this book, the author begins with the life story of Carl Akeley, father of modern taxidermy, who started by stuffing a canary and ended with creating the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at The American Museum of Natural History. |
| Synopsis: |
Why would someone create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? That's the question Dave Madden explores in "The Authentic Animal". He begins with the life story of Carl Akeley, father of modern taxidermy, who started by stuffing a canary and ended with creating the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at The American Museum of Natural History. To get a first-hand glimpse at this world, Madden travels to the World Taxidermy Championships, the garage workplaces of people who mount freeze-dried pets for bereaved owners and the classrooms of a taxidermy academy where students stretch deer pelts over foam bases. On his travels he looks at the forms taxidermy takes - hunting trophies, museum dioramas, roadside novelties, pet memorials - and considers what taxidermy has to tell us about human-animal relationships. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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