Nature's Mirror

Nature's Mirror
Author: Mary Anne Andrei
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020-11-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022673045X


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It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world. Witnessing firsthand the decimation caused by hide hunters, commercial feather collectors, whalers, big game hunters, and poachers, these museum taxidermists recognized the existential threat to critically endangered species and the urgent need to protect them. The compelling exhibits they created—as well as the scientific field work, popular writing, and lobbying they undertook—established a vital leadership role in the early conservation movement for American museums that persists to this day. Through their individual research expeditions and collective efforts to arouse demand for environmental protections, this remarkable cohort—including William T. Hornaday, Carl E. Akeley, and several lesser-known colleagues—created our popular understanding of the animal world and its fragile habitats. For generations of museum visitors, they turned the glass of an exhibition case into a window on nature—and a mirror in which to reflect on our responsibility for its conservation.


Nature's Mirror
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Mary Anne Andrei
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become awar
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Language: en
Pages: 0
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Categories: Landscape drawing
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:

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Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 10-December 10, 2017.
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Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Richard Rorty
Categories: Analysis (Philosophy).
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Nature as Mirror
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Stephanie Sorrell
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

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Basing our psychospiritual development on the model of the tree a symbol of the continuity of life Stephanie Sorrell shows how we may understand the rhythms and
A Mirror to Nature
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jane Yolen
Categories: Animals
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Wordsong

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This is a short book of verse that opens up nature and poetry to young readers. It does so by pairing short, insightful and cheerful poems with colorful picture