Now Is the Time to Collect

Now Is the Time to Collect
Author: Paul D. Brinkman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2024-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817361480

"A narrative microhistory of the Field Museum of Natural History's groundbreaking expedition to hunt and preserve rare African animal specimens for its collection before it went extinct due to modern progress and natural selection, a common view among natural historians as the 1800s came to a close"--