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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural-History Objects
J. E. Taylor
161 pages~3 hr 13 min read199 chapters$1.99
How do you skin a bird, press a fern, pin a beetle or keep a shell from crumbling? J. E. Taylor's handy manual teaches the Victorian art of building a natural-history collection that lasts. Practical, hands-on and thorough across every branch of the field. The guide every amateur naturalist once kept on the shelf.
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199 chapters
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+ 181 more. The full contents open with the book.
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