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Author:
Bechtel, Stefan.
Title:
Mr. Hornaday's war : how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world / Stefan Bechtel.
Publisher:
Beacon Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xviii, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Hornaday, William T.--(William Temple),--1854-1937.
Hornaday, William T.--(William Temple),--1854-1937--Political and social views.
Wildlife conservationists--United States--Biography.
Zoo keepers--United States--Biography.
Zoologists--United States--Biography.
Taxidermists--United States--Biography.
Wildlife conservation--United States--History.
Wildlife conservation--History.
Game protection--United States--History.
Game protection--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue: The Fear -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. The Heedless Hunter -- Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa -- Yearning, too much, for Fame -- The Empress Josephine -- Man-Eaters of the Anaimlai Hills -- Darwin's Firestorm -- "A Thief in the Night" -- A Dream Deferred -- Scandal at the Zoo -- pt. 3. Wildlife Warrior -- The Dark Shadow -- Empire of the Buffalo -- Our Vanishing Wildlife -- Two Hundred Years of War -- Epilogue: His Indomitable Persistence.
ISBN:
0807006351 (acid-free paper)
9780807006351 (acid-free paper)
LCCN:
2011048450
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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