A Long Look at Nature: The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
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This book can help us all maintain some essential contact with, and appreciation for, our natural world upon which we depend for survival. (C. Ritchie Bell, Professor of Botany Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Book Description
What does a jar of preserved leopard frogs or the articulated skeleton of a beached sperm whale say about the way we understand nature in North Carolina? Margaret Martin explores this question in the story of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, founded over 120 years ago to serve as a keeper of natural history collections, a vital resource for the scientific community, and a public interpreter of our natural world.
The book is organized around the museum's collections: Rocks and Minerals, Fossils, Invertebrates, Fishes, Reptiles and Amphibians, Birds, and Mammals. Martin looks at how these collections have been interpreted over time, tracing the shift away from a nineteenth-century presentation of nature as something ripe for exploitation to a more contemporary view of natural communities as complex, interconnected, and deserving of conservation.
With 175 color and black-and-white photographs, A Long Look at Nature is both an engaging introduction to the museum and a striking visual tribute to its collections. The book celebrates North Carolina nature in all its diversity and highlights the museum's crucial role in interpreting North Carolina's natural heritage.
A Long Look at Nature: The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
A Long Look at Nature: The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences,Margaret Martin,Rosamond Purcell,The University of North Carolina Press,0807849855,Environmental Science,General,Museology (General),Museums, Tours, Points of Interest,Natural History,Nature,Nature/Ecology,North Carolina,North Carolina State Museum of,North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences,United States - State & Local - General,Museums & Museology,NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS,Science / Environmental Science
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