Still life : adventures in taxidermy /
Milgrom, Melissa.
Still life : adventures in taxidermy / Adventures in taxidermy Melissa Milgrom. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. - 285 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
061840547X 9780618405473
2009013511
Taxidermists--Anecdotes.
Taxidermy--Anecdotes.
Still life : adventures in taxidermy / Adventures in taxidermy Melissa Milgrom. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. - 285 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
061840547X 9780618405473
2009013511
Taxidermists--Anecdotes.
Taxidermy--Anecdotes.