Dry store room no. 1

Alternate Titles

• Secret life of the Natural History Museum

Description

A remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that make London's Natural History Museum one of the world's greatest institutions.In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Richard Fortey takes his readers to a place where only a few privileged scientists, curators, and research specialists have been--the hallowed halls that hold the permanent collection of the Natural History Museum. Replete with fossils, jewels, rare plants, and exotic species, Fortey's walk through offers an intimate view of many of the premiere scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Like looking into the mind of mankind and all the fascinating discoveries, ideas, and accomplishments that reside there, Fortey's tour is utterly entertaining from first to last.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Description

Richard Fortey ... describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-secnes guide to a legendary places. Within its pages, London's Natural History Museum, a home of treasures - plants from the voyage of Captain Cook, barnacles to which Charles Darwin devoted years of study, hidden accursed jewels - pulses with life and miraculous surprises. 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 the museum.

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Other Editions

• Dry store room no. 1: the secret life of the Natural History MuseumHarper Press2008-01-01
• Dry Storeroom No. 1Electronic resourceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2008-01-01
• Dry Store Room No. 1Alfred A. Knopf2008-01-01
• Dry Store Room No. 1PaperbackHarperCollins Publishers2008-09-01