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Why would someone create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? That's the question Dave Madden explores in "The Authentic Animal". He begins with the life story of Carl Akeley, father of modern taxidermy, who started by stuffing a canary and ended with creating the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at The American Museum of Natural History. To get a first-hand glimpse at this world, Madden travels to the World Taxidermy Championships, the garage workplaces of people who mount freeze-dried pets for bereaved owners and the classrooms of a taxidermy academy where students stretch deer pelts over foam bases. On his travels he looks at the forms taxidermy takes - hunting trophies, museum dioramas, roadside novelties, pet memorials - and considers what taxidermy has to tell us about human-animal relationships.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Other technologies & applied sciences Taxidermy

• Full title: Authentic Animal
• Subtitle: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy
• Author: Dave Madden
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781250014726
• ID: 04953536
• Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
• Weight: 240 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. January 2013

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