Mr. Hornaday's War How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World

Name: Mr. Hornaday's War How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World
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ISBN: 9780807006382

ISBN-10: 0807006386

ISBN-13: 9780807006382

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Authors: Stefan Bechtel

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He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he began as a taxidermist and an adventurer who tracked tigers in Borneo with friendly headhunters, lead crocodile-hunting expeditions in the Orinoco, and scouted the last remaining bison in the Montana territories. William Temple Hornaday (1854–1937) was also a man ahead of his time. He was the most influential conservationist of the nineteenth century, second only to his great friend and ally Theodore Roosevelt. When this one-time big-game collector witnessed the wanton destruction of…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 5/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.74" wide x 8.76" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Note to Reader


William Temple Hornaday: a Life in Brief


Prologue: The Fear



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"



The Heedless Hunter



Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa



Yearning, Too Much, for Fame



The Empress Josephine



Man-Eaters of the Animallai Hills



Darwin's Firestorm



"A Thief in the Night"



A Dream Deferred



Scandal at the Zoo



Wildlife Warrior



The Dark Shadow



Empire of the Buffalo



Our Vanishing Wildlife



Two Hundred Years of War


Epilogue: His Indomitable Persistence


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index