Kniha Museum Ashley Hay

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The Macleays, their Collections and the Search for Order

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Očekávaný dotisk
Termín neznámý
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When the first British visitors arrived on Australia's shores at the end of the eighteenth century,...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2007
Stránek
196
EAN
9780521874533
ISBN
052187453X
Enbook ID
02048455
Hmotnost
1700
Rozměry
259 x 345 x 19

Kompletní popis

When the first British visitors arrived on Australia's shores at the end of the eighteenth century, it was not only the potential of its space that tantalised them, but the extraordinary living things that they found there. Every European collector worth his salt desired a kangaroo, a parakeet, a waratah, and ship after ship sailed north loaded with Australia's remarkable natural history specimens. In 1826, the most serious collector to make his own trip to the antipodes arrived – his name was Alexander Macleay, and over 70 years he and his family accumulated an unbelievably rich and diverse collection of specimens from Australia itself and beyond. Museum throws open the doors of a historically rich and rare collection, stunningly captured in the images of Robyn Stacey. It reclaims the stories of those specimens, and those obsessions, revealing another chapter of Australia's own very particular, passionate and unique history.

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