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"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
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"The shells shown in this book belong to one of the most diverse groups of creatures, the mollusks. These are invertebrates - soft-bodied animals without an internal skeleton - and include snails, oysters, cuttlefishes, and chitons. Curator at the Natural History Museum, London and mollusk expert, Andreia Salvador, gives readers a visual tour of some of the fascinating shells in the Museum's mollusca collection, which is one of the most comprehensive...
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 8
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The eighth installment in this cozy mystery series features Daisy Dalrymple at the Museum of Natural History, a place of fascination--and murder in the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day--with her nephew Derek and her soon-to-be stepdaughter Belinda in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London,...
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In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill London's Natural History Museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first...
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Salamandra
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2021
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El libro invita a toda la familia a descubrir los vínculos que existen entre las criaturas mágicas del universo de J.K. Rowling y los asombrosos animales que habitan la tierra, los mares y los cielos de nuestro planeta.
The official companion to the Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature exhibition at the Natural History Museum. An extraordinary exploration of the parallels between our planet's wildest animals, creatures from myth and legend, and...
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