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Subject(s)

• Scientific expeditions—British Somaliland [Browse]
• Zoology—British Somaliland—History—19th century [Browse]
• Zoological specimens—Collection and preservation—British Somaliland [Browse]
• Field Museum African Expedition (1896) [Browse]
• Elliot, Daniel Giraud 1835-1915 [Browse]
• Akeley, Carl E. 1864-1926 [Browse]

Related name

• ProQuest (Firm) [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• One or two good men
• The strongest kind of competition
• We look for great results
• A real parrot and monkey time
• Rather a bad beginning: April 20-30
• Never a finer drink: May 1-5
• A crow's idea of tenderness: May 6-20
• All drive and rush and sensational effects
• Life seems more worth living: May 21-June 2
• A building as nearly perfect as possible
• A greater misfortune than we deserved: June 3-11
• His life or mine: June 12-20
• A disgrace to science
• Scrimmage with a leopard: June 21-July 1
• An inexplicable fix
• Omelette à l'ostriche: July 2-15
• Somebody must pay: July 16-24
• A pretty state of affairs: July 25-30
• An orange to be squeezed: July 31-August 8
• Finishing the fight: August 9-16
• No alternative but to turn back: August 17-September 24
• Bringing it all back home
• Better than seeing the animals alive
• Unplanned obsolescence.

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ISBN

• 9780817395179 (electronic bk.)
• 0817395172 (electronic bk.)

OCLC

1449624403

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