Author: Rowland WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Game and game-birds
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Sportsman's Handbook to Collecting, Preserving, and Setting-up Trophies & Specimens Together with a Guide to the Hunting Grounds of the World
Author: Rowland WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Game and game-birds
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Sportsman's Handbook to Practical Collecting, Preserving, and Artistic Setting-up of Trophies and Specimens
Author: Rowland WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: The Breathless Zoo
Author: Rachel PoliquinPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271053720
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"A cultural and poetic analysis of the art and science of taxidermy, from sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art"--Provided by publisher.
Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain
Author: Ann C. ColleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134766459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display skins to promote and glorify Britain’s colonial achievements, Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear’s commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby’s extensive collection challenge the colonial’s or collector’s commanding gaze, while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of skin as a locus of memory and touch where one’s past can be traced in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.
With Rifle in Five Continents
Author: Paul NiedieckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game
Author: Rowland WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game animals
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Hunting Trips in the Caucasus
Author: E. Demīdov (Prince of San Donato.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caucasus
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Author: