Touched by Fire

Name: Touched by Fire
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ISBN: 9783865218551

ISBN-10: 3865218555

ISBN-13: 9783865218551

Edition: 2009

Authors: Martin D'Orgeval

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On February 1, 2008, at 5:00 A.M., a fire ripped through Deyrolle, the venerable Parisian entomology and taxidermy store, in business since 1831. The shop's historic collections of butterflies, rare insects, stuffed animals and minerals went up in smoke, and with them the memories of generations of schoolchildren, dreamers and enthusiasts fascinated by their motionless beauty. Stuffed, mounted and classified, thousands of specimens of a wide range of species conserved by this world-renowned institution were at best singed and at worst reduced to ashes. That which man and science had taken from the natural cycle of life and death and fixed forever for our wide-eyed pleasure was partially…

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List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei und Verlag
Publication date: 7/31/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 250
Size: 10.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540