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Philadelphia. The late 1870s. A city of cobblestone sidewalks and horse-drawn carriages. Home to the famous anatomist and surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a "resurrectionist" (aka grave robber), Dr. Black studied at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts - mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs - were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind?

"The Resurrectionist" offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from his humble beginnings to the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black's magnum opus: "The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray's Anatomy" for mythological beasts - dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus - all rendered in meticulously detailed black-and-white anatomical illustrations.

You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. "The Resurrectionist" tells his story.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Historical fiction

• Full title: The Resurrectionist
• Subtitle: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
• Author: E. B. Hudspeth
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781594746161
• ISBN: 1594746168
• ID: 01282740
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Weight: 812 g
• Dimensions: 274 × 192 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. May 2013

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