TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flynn,Chris
TI  - Mammoth
SN  - 0702263931
AV  - PR8289.L93 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - St Lucia
PB  - University of Queensland Press
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Animal remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Antique auctions
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Fossils
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Mammoths
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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