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Mr. Hornaday's war : how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world
- Title
- Mr. Hornaday's war : how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world / Stefan Bechtel.
- Author
- Bechtel, Stefan.
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-4776 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xviii, 254 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Mister Hornaday's war
- Subjects
- Hornaday, William T (William Temple), 1854-1937
- Game protection > History
- Wildlife conservation > United States > History
- Wildlife conservation > History
- Zoo keepers > United States > Biography
- Zoologists > United States > Biography
- Game protection > United States > History
- Taxidermists > United States > Biography
- Wildlife conservationists > United States > Biography
- Hornaday, William T (William Temple), 1854-1937 > Political and social views
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-4776
- ISBN
- 9780807006351
- 0807006351
- LCCN
- 2011048450
- OCLC
- 2011048450
- Author
- Bechtel, Stefan.
- Title
- Mr. Hornaday's war : how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world / Stefan Bechtel.
- Imprint
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-4776