The afterlives of animals : a museum menagerie / edited by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.
- Date:
- 2011
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Physical description
vi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Location Status Access Closed storesM13714
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ISBN
- 9780813931678
- 0813931673