Dry Storeroom No. 1 The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Name: Dry Storeroom No. 1 The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
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ISBN: 9780307263629

ISBN-10: 0307263622

ISBN-13: 9780307263629

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Fortey

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Richard Forteyone of the world's most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author ofLife, TrilobiteandEarthdescribes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, London's Natural History Museum, a home of treasuresplants from the voyage of Captain Cook, barnacles to which Charles Darwin devoted years of study, hidden accursed jewelspulses with life and miraculous surprises. In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill the museum.…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/19/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Richard Fortey is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London.



Behind the Galleries


The Naming of Names


Old Worlds


Animalia


Theatre of Plants


Multum in parvo


Museum Rocks


Noah's Ark in Kensington


House of the Muses


Acknowledgements


Further Reading


Illustration Credits


Index