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The Extermination of the American Bison
William T. Hornaday's 'The Extermination of the American Bison' stands as both a seminal work in conservation literature and a sober historical record of human impact on the environment. Offering detailed accounts of the near annihilation of a species once ubiquitous across the North American plains, Hornaday weaves scientific observation with a narrative flair that invigorates the text with palpable urgency. Within its literary context, the book serves as a precursor to the environmental awareness movements, situating itself in an era where the concept of conservation began to take hold in the public consciousness. The meticulous reproduction by DigiCat Publishing awakens the book's histori...
Our Vanishing Wild Life
William Temple Hornaday was the Director of the New York Zoological Society and the nation's leading advocate of wildlife conservation in this era. This unsparing manifesto was written to accompany Hornaday's launching of the Permanent Wildlife Protection Fund; it is thus (in the words of the historian Stephen Fox) both "a campaign tract" and "one of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals" (John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement [Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981], p. 149). It is also a landmark of conservation history which had a profound effect on the thought of Aldo Leopold, among others. The book surveys the history and causes of wildlife de...
The Most Defiant Devil
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 rac...
Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting
William T. Hornaday's 'Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting' stands as a seminal work in the preservation and presentation of natural history, a must-read for anyone vested in the art and science of taxidermy. Hornaday, with his meticulous attention to detail, guides the reader through the intricate processes of taxidermy and specimen collection. His prose, grounded in the practical needs of the amateur taxidermist and natural historian, reflects the ethos of the late 19th to early 20th centuries when conservation and scientific education were burgeoning fields. The literary context of this work bridges the gap between scientific manual and historical document, preserving traditional methodol...
Gathering of Animals
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Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine "At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making “a crucial addition to the literature of our troubled time" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed scie...
A History of America in 100 Maps
Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past. In this book Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age. With stunning visual clarity, A History of America in 100 Maps showcases the power of cartography to illuminate and complicate our understanding of the past. Gath...
