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050 00 QL31.A5|bK57 2010 
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100 1  Kirk, Jay. 
245 10 Kingdom under glass :|ba tale of obsession, adventure, and
       one man's quest to preserve the world's great animals /
       |cJay Kirk. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHenry Holt and Co.,|c[2010] 
264  4 |c©2010 
300    387 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-372) and 
       index. 
520    During the golden age of safaris in the early twentieth 
       century, one man set out to preserve Africa's great 
       beasts. In this epic account of an extraordinary life 
       lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the 
       adventures of the brooding genius who revolutionized 
       taxidermy and created the famed African Hall we visit 
       today at New York's Museum of Natural History. The Gilded 
       Age was drawing to a close, and with it came the 
       realization that men may have hunted certain species into 
       oblivion. Renowned taxidermist Carl Akeley joined the 
       hunters rushing to Africa, where he risked death time and 
       again as he stalked animals for his dioramas and hobnobbed
       with outsized personalities of the era such as Theodore 
       Roosevelt and P. T. Barnum. In a tale of art, science, 
       courage, and romance, Jay Kirk resurrects a legend and 
       illuminates a fateful turning point when Americans had to 
       decide whether to save nature, to destroy it, or to just 
       stare at it under glass. 
600 10 Akeley, Carl E.,|d1864-1926. 
650  0 Wild animal collectors|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Taxidermists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Zoological specimens|zAfrica|xCollection and preservation.
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