Dry Storeroom No. 1
The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Fortey, Richard
Hardcover
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Richard Fortey—one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth—describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, London’s Natural History Museum, a home of treasures—plants from the voyage of Captain Cook, barnacles to which Charles Darwin devoted years of study, hidden accursed jewels—pulses with life and miraculous surprises. In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill the museum. And with the museum’s hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Fortey’s scholarship dances with wit. Here is a book that is utterly entertaining from its first page to its last.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0307263622
ISBN(13-digit): 9780307263629
Dewey Decimal: 508.074/42134
Library of Congress: bl2008014992
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 335
Paper Weight (lb): 1.6438 lb
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