Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species by Andrei, Mary Anne
Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species by Andrei, Mary Anne

Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria...
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Author: Mary Anne Andrei
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Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species by Andrei, Mary Anne

Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species

$631.81
Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species by Andrei, Mary Anne

Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species

$631.81
Author: Mary Anne Andrei
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world.

Witnessing firsthand the decimation caused by hide hunters, commercial feather collectors, whalers, big game hunters, and poachers, these museum taxidermists recognized the existential threat to critically endangered species and the urgent need to protect them. The compelling exhibits they created--as well as the scientific field work, popular writing, and lobbying they undertook--established a vital leadership role in the early conservation movement for American museums that persists to this day.

Through their individual research expeditions and collective efforts to arouse demand for environmental protections, this remarkable cohort--including William T. Hornaday, Carl E. Akeley, and several lesser-known colleagues--created our popular understanding of the animal world and its fragile habitats. For generations of museum visitors, they turned the glass of an exhibition case into a window on nature--and a mirror in which to reflect on our responsibility for its conservation.


Author: Mary Anne Andrei
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/20/2020
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780226730318


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About the Author
Mary Anne Andrei is a three-time Heartland Emmy Award winner and senior producer for emerging media at NET Nebraska, the state's PBS and NPR station. Her short film Return of the American Bison received a 2019 Heartland Emmy and her PBS Digital 360° video series Watershed won a 2020 Radio Television Digital News Association Regional Murrow Award and a 2020 Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association Eric Sevareid Award. Her photos have appeared in the Guardian, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, and New Republic.
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