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Language
English
Description
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Transformed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, journalist Milgrom delves deeply into the world of taxidermy, encountering a world of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A quiet, cynic taxidermist, who suffers from epilepsy attacks, is obsessed with committing the perfect crime. He claims that the police are too stupid to find out about it when it's well executed, and that the robbers are too stupid to execute it the right way. He feels that he could do it himself by relying on his photographic memory and his strategic planning skills. He is invited on a hunting trip away from his home. Once there, an accident gives...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweeping historical narrative of the life of Carl Akeley, the famed explorer and taxidermist who changed the way Americans viewed the conservation of the natural world
During the golden age of safaris in the early twentieth century, one man set out to preserve Africa's great beasts. In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of the brooding genius who revolutionized taxidermy and...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of the Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 123 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Walter Potter (1835-918), a British country taxidermist of no great expertise, built anthropomorphic taxidermy tableaux that became famous icons of Victorian whimsy, including his masterpiece The Death & Burial of Cock Robin. His tiny museum in Bramber, Sussex, was crammed full of multi-legged kittens, two-headed lambs, and a bewildering assortment of curios. Potter's inspired and beguiling tableaux found many fans in the contemporary art world: it...
Publisher
Zima Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Éd. especial.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A shy taxidermist, Espinoza, who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery, steals from a casino and is thrown into a dangerous new world of crime. While he runs for his life, his epileptic seizures give him a moment of confusion and enlightenment where the past and future seem to blend.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Early one morning, Congressman Alexander Paine Wilson is planning his reelection campaign when a mysterious delivery arrives at his townhouse. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. What does it mean? The story hurtles between present day Washington, DC, where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England, where readers meet the aardvark's taxidermist and the naturalist who hunted her, and...
10) Chickenhare
Author
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
157 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Night is falling on the frozen landscape as Chickenhare and his turtle friend Abe find themselves on their way to be sold to Klaus, an insane taxidermist with a penchant for unique animals and enough emotional baggage to go on a very long vacation. With the help of two mysterious new companions, our fuzzy, feathered, and amphibious heroes endeavor to escape their dire fate. But they soon discover that might not be so easy when they get caught up...
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