The afterlives of animals [electronic resource] : a museum menagerie / edited by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.
Publication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.Description: vi, 247 p. : illISBN:- 9780813931678 (cloth alk. paper)
- 0813931673 (cloth alk. paper)
- 0813932084 (ebook)
- 9780813932088 (e-book)
- 590 22
- QL793 .A38 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the dead ark / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- "The Queen's ass" : the cultural life of Queen Charlotte's zebra in Georgian Britain / Christopher Plumb -- Maharajah the elephant's journey : from nature to culture / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- Sir Roger the elephant / Richard Sutcliffe, Mike Rutherford, and Jeanne Robinson -- "Under my skin" : the biography of a Manchester mandrill / Sophie Everest -- Balto the dog / Rachel Poliquin -- The biogeographies of a hollow-eyed harrier / Merle Patchett, Kate Foster, and Hayden Lorimer -- Biological objects and "mascotism" : the life and times of Alfred the gorilla / Hannah Paddon -- Neurath's whale / Michelle Henning -- The afterlife of Chi-Chi / Henry Nicholls -- The Thames whale : the difficult birth of a celebrity specimen / Richard C. Sabin -- Enlivened through memory : hunters and hunting trophies / Garry Marvin -- An afterword on afterlife / Geoffrey N. Swinney.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.