Author: Roualeyn Gordon-CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Five Years' Adventures in the Far Interior of South Africa
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c. ... With illustrations
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The lion hunter of South Africa
Author: Roualeyn Gordon CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Lion Hunter of South Africa
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review
Author: Catalogue of Books
Author: Perth (W.A.). Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Public Library of Western Australia
Author: Western Australia. Public Library, PerthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
University Library Bulletin
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
General Catalogue of ... Free Public Library
Author: Auckland Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
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.