Mammoth / Chris Flynn.

By: Flynn, ChrisMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: St Lucia : University of Queensland Press, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0702263931; 9780702263934; 9780702263927; 9780702263941Subject(s): Antiquities -- Fiction | Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Fiction | Antique auctions -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | Fossils -- Fiction | Religion and science -- Fiction | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction | Mammoths -- FictionLOC classification: PR8289.L93
Contents:
Cover -- Praise for Mammoth -- Author biography -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Thomas Jefferson Letter -- Natural History Auction 2007 -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Epilogus hominum -- Epilogus mammut -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography.
Summary: Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a prehistoric penguin, the severed hand of an Egyptian mummy and the narrator himself came to be on sale at a 2007 natural history auction in Manhattan. Ranging from the Pleistocene Epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, including detours to Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany, Mammoth illuminates a period of history when ideas about science and religion underwent significant change. By tracing how and when the fossils were unearthed, Mammoth traverses time and place to reveal humanity's role in the inexorable destruction of the natural world.
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Includes bibliography.

Cover -- Praise for Mammoth -- Author biography -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Thomas Jefferson Letter -- Natural History Auction 2007 -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Epilogus hominum -- Epilogus mammut -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography.

Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a prehistoric penguin, the severed hand of an Egyptian mummy and the narrator himself came to be on sale at a 2007 natural history auction in Manhattan. Ranging from the Pleistocene Epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, including detours to Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany, Mammoth illuminates a period of history when ideas about science and religion underwent significant change. By tracing how and when the fossils were unearthed, Mammoth traverses time and place to reveal humanity's role in the inexorable destruction of the natural world.

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