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Mr. Hornaday's war : how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world / Stefan Bechtel.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating QL31.H67 B43 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bechtel, Stefan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937.
- Hornaday, William T.
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937--Political and social views.
- Wildlife conservationists--United States--Biography.
- Wildlife conservationists.
- Zoo keepers--United States--Biography.
- Zoo keepers.
- Zoologists--United States--Biography.
- Zoologists.
- Game protection.
- History.
- Wildlife conservation.
- Taxidermists.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- Taxidermists--United States--Biography.
- Wildlife conservation--United States--History.
- Wildlife conservation--History.
- Game protection--United States--History.
- Game protection--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 254 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Mister Hornaday's war
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Recounts the life of the conservationist, who spent his life protecting wildlife as a taxidermist and museum collector; as the founder and first director of the National Zoo; as director of the Bronx Zoo; and as an author.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Fear
- pt. 1. The Awakening
- His Name Was Dauntless
- A Melancholy Insanity
- The Second Civil War
- Souvenir of a Lost World
- The Last Buffalo Hunt
- A Mysterious Stranger
- A Nobility beyond All Compare
- pt. 2. The Heedless Hunter
- Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa
- Yearning, too much, for Fame
- The Empress Josephine
- Man-Eaters of the Anaimlai Hills
- Darwin's Firestorm
- "A Thief in the Night"
- A Dream Deferred
- Scandal at the Zoo
- pt. 3. Wildlife Warrior
- The Dark Shadow
- Empire of the Buffalo
- Our Vanishing Wildlife
- Two Hundred Years of War
- Epilogue: His Indomitable Persistence.
- Man-Eaters of the Animalai Hills
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780807006351
- 0807006351
- OCLC:
- 753624790
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