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Mr. Hornaday's war : how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world
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Recounts the life of the conservationist, who spent his life protecting wildlife as a taxidermist and museum collector; as the founder and first director of the National Zoo; as director of the Bro...
Recounts the life of the conservationist, who spent his life protecting wildlife as a taxidermist and museum collector; as the founder and first director of the National Zoo; as director of the Bronx Zoo; and as an author.
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- Creator
- Stefan Bechtel
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- English
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- Boston : Beacon Press, [2012]
- ©2012
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- xviii, 254 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807006351, 0807006351
- OCLC
- ocn753624790
- Includes bibliography (pages 236-242) and index.
- Prologue: The Fear -- pt. 1. The Awakening -- His Name Was Dauntless -- A Melancholy Insanity -- The Second Civil War -- Souvenir of a Lost World -- The Last Buffalo Hunt -- A Mysterious Stranger -- A Nobility beyond All Compare -- pt. 2. The Heedless Hunter -- Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa -- Yearning, too much, for Fame -- The Empress Josephine -- Man-Eaters of the Anaimlai Hills -- Darwin's Firestorm -- "A Thief in the Night" -- A Dream Deferred -- Scandal at the Zoo -- pt. 3. Wildlife Warrior -- The Dark Shadow -- Empire of the Buffalo -- Our Vanishing Wildlife -- Two Hundred Years of War -- Epilogue: His Indomitable Persistence
Subjects
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937.
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 -- Political and social views.
- Wildlife conservationists -- United States -- Biography.
- Zoo keepers -- United States -- Biography.
- Zoologists -- United States -- Biography.
- Taxidermists -- United States -- Biography.
- Wildlife conservation -- United States -- History.
- Wildlife conservation -- History.
- Game protection -- United States -- History.
- Game protection -- History.