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The unburnt egg : more stories of a museum curator /
Natural history museums contain many thousands of zoological specimens and each has a tale to tell an often involving extraordinary people, daring explorations, unquenchable scientific curiosity, and strange coincidences. This perfectly presented book, with its engaging pictures, is rich in stories...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wellington, New Zealand :
Awa Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; A hapless king penguin; Secrets of the shining cuckoo; The unburnt egg; The man who imagined the moa; Flight of the long-tailed cuckoo; Booby eggs and a solar eclipse; Song of the huia; Seals in sand dunes; Ship rats of Big South Cape Island; Charles McCann's giant flying frogs; Seeking Pacific skinks; Rarotonga revisited; Baden Powell's sea-slug paintings; Fur, feathers and frogs' legs; Further reflections; Illustrations; Registration numbers; Further reading; Other sources; Acknowledgements; Index | |
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