The afterlives of animals
Subtitle: a museum menagerie
By: edited by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780813931678; 9780813932088
Subjects: Animals; Exhibitions; Natural history museums; Animals and civilization; Zoological specimens; Anecdotes; Famous animals; Collection and preservation; Taxidermy; Menageries; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the dead ark / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti; title: "The Queen's ass" : the cultural life of Queen Charlotte's zebra in Georgian Britain / Christopher Plumb; title: Maharajah the elephant's journey : from nature to culture / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti; title: Sir Roger the elephant / Richard Sutcliffe, Mike Rutherford, and Jeanne Robinson; title: "Under my skin" : the biography of a Manchester mandrill / Sophie Everest; title: Balto the dog / Rachel Poliquin; title: The biogeographies of a hollow-eyed harrier / Merle Patchett, Kate Foster, and Hayden Lorimer; title: Biological objects and "mascotism" : the life and times of Alfred the gorilla / Hannah Paddon; title: Neurath's whale / Michelle Henning; title: The afterlife of Chi-Chi / Henry Nicholls; title: The Thames whale : the difficult birth of a celebrity specimen / Richard C. Sabin; title: Enlivened through memory : hunters and hunting trophies / Garry Marvin; title: An afterword on afterlife / Geoffrey N. Swinney.