Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum / Richard Fortey.
Fortey, Richard A.
2008
QH70.G72 L6533 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum / Richard Fortey.
Author Fortey, Richard A.
ISBN 9780307263629
0307263622
Publication Details New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Language English
Description 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number QH70.G72 L6533 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 508/.074/4212
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-318) and index.
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