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Skulls : An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection by Simon Winchester
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Good condition”
- Type
- Picture Book
- Book Series
- Historical
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Unknown
- ISBN
- 9781579129125
- Book Title
- Skulls : an Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection
- Publisher
- Running Press
- Item Length
- 10.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Science
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 48.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 10.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Running Press
ISBN-10
1579129129
ISBN-13
9781579129125
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114145210
Product Key Features
Book Title
Skulls : an Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
48.9 Oz
Item Length
10.4 in
Item Width
10.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
This is a gorgeous, coffee-table book that will the delight the heart... I loved this book. A real treasure. -- Publishers Weekly, Digging deep into Alan Dudley's collection of more than 2,000 skulls, Winchester ( The Professor and the Madman ) and photographer Mann highlight the rarest and most unusual of the vaunted cranium connoisseur's world-class assortment (which is housed cozily in a spare upstairs bedroom in his home in England). Grouping the skulls according to species, Winchester enthusiastically educates armchair osteologists on the peculiarities of key subspecies, enabling readers, should the need arise, to tell a long-nosed bandicoot from a southern brown bandicoot, the bizarrely horned babirusa from a warthog, or the fearsome (and extinct) saber-toothed cat from a modern (endangered) tiger. Though some, like the hard-to-find elephant skull, are replicas, the vast majority are the real thing, including that of the extinct dodo bird. Winchester rounds out the book with various essays on topics such as the use of skulls in artwork, phrenology, and other related subjects with varying degrees of success. Prone to wordiness, he's at his best offering short takes on his subjects or tips on DIY skull collecting. Mann's crisp, reverential photography more than makes up for the volume's literary shortcomings, making this one coffee-table book that's hard to resist.
Synopsis
Skulls is a beautiful spellbinding exploration of more than 300 different animal skulls--amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles--written by New York Times bestselling author, Simon Winchester and produced in collaboration with Theodore Gray and Touch Press, the geniuses behind The Elements and Solar System . In Skulls , best-selling author Simon Winchester (author of The Professor and the Madman ; Atlantic: A Biography of the Ocean ; Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded ; and others)tells the rich and fascinating story of skulls, both human and animal, from every perspective imaginable: historical, biographical, cultural, and iconographic. Presenting details about the parts of the skull (including the cranium, the mandible, the shape and positioning of the eye sockets, and species-specific features like horns, teeth, beaks and bills), information about the science and pseudoscience of skulls, and a look at skulls in religion, art and popular culture, his stories and information are riveting and enlightening. At the center of Skulls is a stunning, never-before-seen-in-any-capacity, visual array of the skulls of more than 300 animals that walk, swim, and fly. The skulls are from the collection of Alan Dudley, a British collector and owner of what is probably the largest and most complete private collection of skulls in the world. Every skull is beautifully photographed to show several angles and to give the reader the most intimate view possible. Each includes a short explanatory paragraph and a data box with information on the animal's taxonomy, behavior, and diet. Skulls was published in December 2011 as an e-book for the iPad by the innovative e-book publishers Touch Press, creators of the best-selling e-books for iPad The Elements and Solar System . Both books were also published in print by Black Dog & Leventhal.
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