Carl Ethan Akeley
ASIN: B00XFS28QI
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 177
"Akeley...took the risk-taking so far that he had been close to death at three occasions...attacks by a leopard, a lioness and an elephant." - Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities (2017)"Akeley sensed an elephant charging...he grabbed both tusks and swung himself on them like a pair of parallel bars." - The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way (2019)Pinned by a charging elephant, forced to choke an attacking leopard to death, why did creator of the world famous Akeley Hall of African Mammals insist on personally collecting the species necessary for his exhibit?During the golden age of safaris in the early twentieth century, one man set out to preserve Africa's great beasts. This epic account tells the adventures of the brooding genius who revolutionized taxidermy and created the famed African Hall we visit today at New York's Museum of Natural ...