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Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals Tapa dura - 2010

de Jay Kirk

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A sweeping historical narrative of the life of Carl Akeley, the famed explorer and taxidermist who changed the way Americans viewed the conservation of the natural world

During the golden age of safaris in the early twentieth century, one man set out to preserve Africa's great beasts. In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of the brooding genius who revolutionized taxidermy and created the famed African Hall we visit today at New York's Museum of Natural History. The Gilded Age was drawing to a close, and with it came the realization that men may have hunted certain species into oblivion. Renowned taxidermist Carl Akeley joined the hunters rushing to Africa, where he risked death time and again as he stalked animals for his dioramas and hobnobbed with outsized personalities of the era such as Theodore Roosevelt and P. T. Barnum. In a tale of art, science, courage, and romance, Jay Kirk resurrects a legend and illuminates a fateful turning point when Americans had to decide whether to save nature, to destroy it, or to just stare at it under glass.

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  • Título Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals
  • Autor Jay Kirk
  • Encuadernación Tapa dura
  • Edición First Edition
  • Páginas 387
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Henry Holt & Company, U.S.A.
  • Fecha de publicación 2010-10
  • ISBN 9780805092820 / 080509282X
  • Peso 1.35 libras (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensiones 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 pulgadas (23.88 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects American Museum of Natural History, Zoological specimens - Collection and
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009050706
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Jay Kirk's nonfiction has been published in "Harper's," "GQ," "The New York Times Magazine," and "The Nation." His work has been anthologized in "Best American Crime Writing 2003" and "2004," and "Best American Travel Writing 2009" (edited by Simon Winchester). He is a recipient of a 2005 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and is a MacDowell Fellow. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

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