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The unburnt egg: more stories of a museum curator

By Brian James , Auckland War Memorial Museum;Gill

Book information

Publisher
Awa Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781927249291, 9781927249307, 1927249309, 9781927249314, 1927249317
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1376474 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Brian -- (Brian James);Auckland War Memorial MuseuMuseums--Curatorship;Museums--Curatorship--New Zea

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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; A hapless 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; Illustrations; Registration numbers; Further reading; Other sources; Acknowledgements; Index Intro Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction A hapless 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 Illustrations Registration numbers Further reading Other sources Acknowledgements Index

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