Mr. Hornaday's war
Subtitle: how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world
By: Stefan Bechtel
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807006351
Subjects: Zoo keepers; Wildlife conservationists; Wildlife conservation; Political and social views; Zoologists; Taxidermists; Game protection; Biography; History
Other titles: Mister Hornaday's war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The Fear; title: pt. 1. The Awakening; title: His Name Was Dauntless; title: A Melancholy Insanity; title: The Second Civil War; title: Souvenir of a Lost World; title: The Last Buffalo Hunt; title: A Mysterious Stranger; title: A Nobility beyond All Compare; title: pt. 2. The Heedless Hunter; title: Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; title: Yearning, too much, for Fame; title: The Empress Josephine; title: Man-Eaters of the Anaimlai Hills; title: Darwin's Firestorm; title: "A Thief in the Night"; title: A Dream Deferred; title: Scandal at the Zoo; title: pt. 3. Wildlife Warrior; title: The Dark Shadow; title: Empire of the Buffalo; title: Our Vanishing Wildlife; title: Two Hundred Years of War; title: Epilogue: His Indomitable Persistence.