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02261aam a2200349 a 4500 001 3AF0AE7ACCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 130114t20132013paua 000 f eng d 010 $a 2012934523 020 $a 1594746168 (hbk.) 020 $a 9781594746161 (hbk.) 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d NvReBT $d SKYRV $d SILO 082 04 $a 813.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Hudspeth, E. B, $e author. 245 14 $a The resurrectionist : $b the lost work of Dr. Spencer Black / $c by E.B. Hudspeth. 260 $a Philadelphia, Pa. : $b Quirk, $c c2013. 300 $a 191 p. : $b ill. (chiefly col.) ; $c 28 cm. 520 $a Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts, mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs, were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black's magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray's Anatomy for mythological beasts, dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus. all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. 650 0 $a Physicians $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $v Fiction. $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Animals, Mythical $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Evolution $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Philadelphia (Pa.) $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Fantasy fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 6 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626020302.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409022908.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418093128.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926021653.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20150410031448.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20140722012607.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3AF0AE7ACCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search