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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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Description

xviii, 254 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Mister Hornaday's war

Subject

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

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