TY  - BOOK
AU  - Milgrom,Melissa
TI  - Still life: adventures in taxidermy 
SN  - 061840547X
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Taxidermists
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Taxidermy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -