The Resource Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey
Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey
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The item Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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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- eng
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- Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum
- Title
- Dry storeroom no. 1
- Title remainder
- the secret life of the Natural History Museum
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Fortey
- Title variation
- Dry storeroom number one
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- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Summary
- Reveals the hidden treasures of London's Natural History Museum and the people, research, and passions that created the museum, in a study of the social history of the scientific accomplishments of the past two centuries
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- Fortey, Richard A
- Dewey number
- 508/.074/4212
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- QH70.G72
- LC item number
- L6533 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Natural History Museum (London, England)
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- the secret life of the Natural History Museum
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- Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey
- Control code
- ocn232119803
- Extent
- p. cm.
- Isbn
- 9780307263629
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 2008926695
- System control number
- (OCoLC)232119803
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- Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey
- Control code
- ocn232119803
- Extent
- p. cm.
- Isbn
- 9780307263629
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 2008926695
- System control number
- (OCoLC)232119803
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