Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy
Nonfiction, Travel, Museums, Tours, & Points of Interest, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture
| Author: | Lawrence Weschler | ISBN: | 9780307833983 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | March 20, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lawrence Weschler |
| ISBN: | 9780307833983 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | March 20, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
