Research Catalog

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Description

1. xviii, 254 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative title

1. Mister Hornaday's war

Subject

1. Hornaday, William T (William Temple), 1854-1937
2. Game protection > History
3. Wildlife conservation > United States > History
4. Wildlife conservation > History
5. Zoo keepers > United States > Biography
6. Zoologists > United States > Biography
7. Game protection > United States > History
8. Taxidermists > United States > Biography
9. Wildlife conservationists > United States > Biography
10. Hornaday, William T (William Temple), 1854-1937 > Political and social views

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 12-4776

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.

Author

1. Bechtel, Stefan.

Title

1. Mr. Hornaday's war : how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world / Stefan Bechtel.

Imprint

1. Boston : Beacon Press, c2012.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.

LCCN

1. 2011048450

ISBN

1. 9780807006351
2. 0807006351

Research call number

1. JFE 12-4776