Bibliograph

Dry storeroom no. 1, the secret life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey

Type

Label

Dry storeroom no. 1, the secret life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-318) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dry storeroom no. 1

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

232119803

Responsibility statement

Richard Fortey

Sub title

the secret life of the Natural History Museum

Summary

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 centuries.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Behind the galleries -- The naming of names -- Old worlds -- Animalia -- Theatre of plants -- Multum in parvo -- Museum rocks -- Noah's Ark in Kensington -- House of the Muses

resource.variantTitle

Dry storeroom number one

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