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Born into what was one of the wealthiest families in the world, "Walter Rothschild" became the best known zoologist of his day - and one of Britain's great eccentrics. A benign and enigmatic figure with a boundless enthusiasm for nature, he amassed the largest accumulation of zoological specimens ever collected by one man, establishing his own private Museum in 1892, now the Natural History Museum at Tring.Walter's extraordinary life traversed the fields of politics and finance, as well as zoology, and was packed with both achievement and incident. From his involvement with the Balfour Declaration to his prodigious personal scientific output, Walter's life was anything but commonplace. He went up to Cambridge accompanied by a flock of kiwi, drove a team of zebra down Piccadilly and into the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, and was a victim of blackmail for many years. With the help of evocative photographs Miriam Rothschild has produced a compelling narrative which, while demonstrating her personal admiration and affection for her uncle, does not shy away from the complexities and conflicts this remarkable man faced during his life.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: historical, political & military

• Full title: Walter Rothschild
• Author: Miriam Rothschild
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780565092283
• ISBN: 0565092286
• ID: 04101692
• Publisher: The Natural History Museum
• Weight: 618 g
• Dimensions: 206 × 136 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2008

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