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Author: Gregory J. Dehler
Page Count: 272 pages
Published Date: 30 Aug 2013
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication Country: Charlottesville, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780813934105
File size: 43 Mb
Download Link: The Most Defiant Devil William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction. (Some are endangered to this day.) And yet these decades also saw the dawn of the conservationist movement. Into this contradictory era came William Temple Hornaday, a larger-than-life dynamo who almost uncannily embodies these conflicting threads in our history. In The Most Defiant Devil , a compelling new biography of this complex figure, Gregory Dehler explores the life of Hornaday the hunter, museum builder, zoologist, author, conservationist, and anti-Bolshevist crusader. A deeply religious man, he was nonetheless anything but peaceful and was racist even by his era's standards, going so far as to display an Mbuti pygmy as a ""living specimen"" in a zoo. A passionate hunter, Hornaday killed thousands of animals, including some of the last wild buffalo in America, but he was far ahead of his time in his influential views on the protection of wildlife. Hornaday designed and built the New York Zoological Park (which became the Bronx Zoo) and was chief taxidermist for what would later become the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. In this single, fascinating individual, we can discern some of the Progressive Era's most destructive forces and some of its most enlightened visions.
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The Most Defiant Devil : William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife. Gregory J. Dehler
Author: Gregory J. Dehler
Page Count: 272 pages
Published Date: 30 Aug 2013
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication Country: Charlottesville, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780813934105
File size: 43 Mb
Download Link: The Most Defiant Devil William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction. (Some are endangered to this day.) And yet these decades also saw the dawn of the conservationist movement. Into this contradictory era came William Temple Hornaday, a larger-than-life dynamo who almost uncannily embodies these conflicting threads in our history. In The Most Defiant Devil , a compelling new biography of this complex figure, Gregory Dehler explores the life of Hornaday the hunter, museum builder, zoologist, author, conservationist, and anti-Bolshevist crusader. A deeply religious man, he was nonetheless anything but peaceful and was racist even by his era's standards, going so far as to display an Mbuti pygmy as a ""living specimen"" in a zoo. A passionate hunter, Hornaday killed thousands of animals, including some of the last wild buffalo in America, but he was far ahead of his time in his influential views on the protection of wildlife. Hornaday designed and built the New York Zoological Park (which became the Bronx Zoo) and was chief taxidermist for what would later become the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. In this single, fascinating individual, we can discern some of the Progressive Era's most destructive forces and some of its most enlightened visions.
Read online The Most Defiant Devil : William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife Buy The Most Defiant Devil : William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife Download and read The Most Defiant Devil : William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Most Defiant Devil : William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent