Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 - Science - 335 pages
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.

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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Richard Fortey
Limited preview - 2009
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Richard Fortey
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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Richard Fortey
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About the author (2008)

RICHARD FORTEY was a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. His previous books includeThe Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past,which won the Natural World Book Prize in 1993. He was Collier Professor in the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol in 2002. In 2003, he won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science from Rockefeller University. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1997 and was elected as a Fellow in the Royal Academy of Literature in 2009.

Bibliographic information

TitleDry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
A Borzoi book
AuthorRichard A. Fortey
Editionillustrated
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf, 2008
ISBN0307263622, 9780307263629
Length335 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Science / Earth Sciences / Geology
Science / History
Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
  
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