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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder : Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Mr Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder Pronged Ants Horned Humans Mice on Toast and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679764892
ISBN-10: 0679764895
Publication Date: 11/26/1996
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The true story of a small museum in California in which the exhibits may or may not be real! This books tells an interesting story about a place unlike any other as well as a history of museums. The writer presents the material with humor and really makes you fell like you are in the museum with him. A great non-fiction read!
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Delightful with a very unusual plot.
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Ever think about what was actually in those strange cabinets of wonder kept as museums in days past? Lawrence Weschler begins to understand the nature of the curious imagination when he investigates the Museum of Jurassic Technology. You'll wonder! and be amazed! by the objects he describes! but you will also ask which ones are real - or you may begin to see everything as an oddity.


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