Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy
Lawrence Weschler$14.41
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Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction 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 to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/26/1996
ISBN: 9780679764892
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.32w x 0.56d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Review Citations: New York Times 03/23/1997 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 09/24/2004 pg. 112
Publishers Weekly 10/28/1996
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction 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 to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/26/1996
ISBN: 9780679764892
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.32w x 0.56d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Review Citations: New York Times 03/23/1997 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 09/24/2004 pg. 112
Publishers Weekly 10/28/1996