The unburnt egg : more stories of a museum curator / / Brian Gill

• Autore: Gill Brian
• Pubblicazione: Wellington, New Zealand : , : Awa Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (140 pages)
• Disciplina: 069.53
• Soggetto topico: Museums - Curatorship - New Zealand - Auckland; Natural history museum curators - New Zealand - Auckland
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- A hapaless king penguin -- Secrets of the shining cuckoo -- The unburnt egg -- The man who imagined the moa -- Flight of the long-tailed cuckoo -- Booby eggs and a solar eclipse -- Song of the huia -- Seals in sand dunes -- Ship rats of Big South Cape Island -- Charles McCann's giant flying frogs -- Seeking Pacific skinks -- Rarotonga revisited -- Baden Powell's sea-slug paintings -- Fur, feathers and frogs legs -- Further reflections.
• Sommario/riassunto: Natural history museums contain many thousands of zoological specimens and each has a tale to tell an often involving extraordinary people, daring explorations, unquenchable scientific curiosity, and strange coincidences. This perfectly presented book, with its engaging pictures, is rich in stories and unveils many secrets. Read about: the fate of a tortoise given as a gift by Captain Cook - the epic international voyage of the biggest known moa egg - the admiration induced by an ape from the jungles of Borneo - the barn owl of mysterious origins - the unfortunate fate of an angry young elephant - the quest to discover how a New Zealand heron turned up in a Florence museum - the strange arrival of an Australian banjo frog - and many other mind-boggling mysteries.
• Titolo autorizzato: The unburnt egg
• ISBN: 1-927249-30-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795526003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II