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Still life : adventures in taxidermy / Melissa Milgrom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milgrom, Melissa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taxidermy--Anecdotes.
- Taxidermy.
- Taxidermists--Anecdotes.
- Taxidermists.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
- Summary:
- Transformed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, journalist Milgrom delves deeply into the world of taxidermy, encountering a world of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life.
- Contents:
- Schwendeman's taxidermy studio
- The champions
- The man who hunted for science
- How the orangutan got its skin
- The chairbitch
- Mr. Potter's Museum of Curiosities
- In-a-gadda-da-vida
- Ken and the Irish elk
- I stuff a squirrel
- Gray squirrel, yellow dawn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780618405473
- 061840547X
- OCLC:
- 317917992
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