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The afterlives of animals : a museum menagerie / edited by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Famous animals--Biography.
- Famous animals.
- Famous animals--Collection and preservation.
- Natural history museums--Exhibitions.
- Natural history museums.
- Zoological specimens--Collection and preservation.
- Zoological specimens.
- Animals--Biography.
- Animals.
- Taxidermy--Anecdotes.
- Taxidermy.
- Menageries.
- Animals and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sabin, Natural History Museum * Richard Sutcliffe, Glasgow Museums * Geoffrey N. Swinney, University of Edinburgh.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the dead ark / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
- "The Queen's ass" : the cultural life of Queen Charlotte's zebra in Georgian Britain / Christopher Plumb
- Maharajah the elephant's journey : from nature to culture / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
- Sir Roger the elephant / Richard Sutcliffe, Mike Rutherford, and Jeanne Robinson
- "Under my skin" : the biography of a Manchester mandrill / Sophie Everest
- Balto the dog / Rachel Poliquin
- The biogeographies of a hollow-eyed harrier / Merle Patchett, Kate Foster, and Hayden Lorimer
- Biological objects and "mascotism" : the life and times of Alfred the gorilla / Hannah Paddon
- Neurath's whale / Michelle Henning
- The afterlife of Chi-Chi / Henry Nicholls
- The Thames whale : the difficult birth of a celebrity specimen / Richard C. Sabin
- Enlivened through memory : hunters and hunting trophies / Garry Marvin
- An afterword on afterlife / Geoffrey N. Swinney.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585394
- 9781280490163
- 1280490160
- 9780813932088
- 0813932084
- OCLC:
- 785940939
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