Kingdom Under Glass

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 11, 2011

Jay Kirk talks about Carl Akeley, the explorer and taxidermist who altered the way Americans viewed the conservation of the natural world. Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals follows the adventures of Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and created the famed African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, and set out to preserve Africa's great beasts in the early 20th century.

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