{"product_id":"now-is-the-time-to-collect-daniel-giraud-elliot-carl-akeley-and-the-field-museum-african-expedition-of-1896-paperback-softback-9780817361488","title":"Now Is the Time to Collect; Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817361488","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNow Is the Time to Collect\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDaniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul D. Brinkman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817361488\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 50 images\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNow is the Time to Collect\u003c\/i\u003e is a very visual project, not only for the excellent photographs, but because the narrative is describing an epic expedition and everything about that expedition is visual.\"—Matthew James (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1987) is a professor of geology and paleontology at Sonoma State University and a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCollecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Brinkman's writing style is extremely engaging, compelling, and lyrical. \"—Gretchen Rings (MLIS, Dominican University, 2008) is museum librarian and head of library collections at The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Paul Brinkman skillfully integrates the unusually rich field diary of Daniel Elliot into the story of the new and ambitious Field Museum as its zoological director ventures into the British imperial Horn of Africa to encounter wildlife, local culture, and the desert landscape. Using letters, photographs, and other archival material, \u003ci\u003eNow is the Time to Collect\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling narrative and documents the salvage zoology rationale that motivated museum curators to shoot what specimens they could before anticipated extinction.\"—Sally Gregory Kohlstedt is professor Emeritus in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe rediscovery of a curator’s lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum’s famed collections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Now” \u003ci\u003eIs the Time to Collect\u003c\/i\u003e tells the fascinating story of the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History’s zoological expedition to Africa in 1896, the source of many of the museum’s foundational collections and an astounding episode in nineteenth-century science. After the well-publicized extinction of the dodo and Carolina parakeet and the collapse of the American bison population, late nineteenth-century naturalists expected many more vulnerable species to die out with spread of Western-style industrialization. This triggered a race to collect rare species of animals expected soon to be lost forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Established in 1893, Chicago’s ambitious Field Museum aimed to become a global center of study. Zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot persuaded museum patrons to fund an immediate expedition to British Somaliland (contemporary Somalia). There, his team hunted and killed hundreds of animals for the growing collection. On the trip was groundbreaking taxonomist Carl Akeley. Back in Chicago, Akeley created captivating lifelike dioramas of rare animal groups that enhanced the museum’s fame and remain popular to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enriched with illuminated passages from Elliot’s journal, only recently rediscovered, “Now” \u003ci\u003eIs the Time to Collect \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book of its kind by an American museum and a case study in what author Paul D. Brinkman calls “salvage zoology”—the practice of aggressively collecting rare animal specimens for preservation just prior to the birth of the modern conservation movement. It is a riveting account of the expedition, the travelers’ experiences in Somalia during its colonial period, and the astonishing origins of one of Chicago’s classic museum experiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739278766360,"sku":"9780817361488","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/now-is-the-time-to-collect-daniel-giraud-elliot-carl-akeley-and-the-field-museum-african-expedition-of-1896-paperback-softback-9780817361488","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}