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Cover Essay: John Gould and a Devil’s Despair

Authors: Peter Daszak, Aleksei Chmura

Published in: EcoHealth | Issue 3/2007

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John Gould was a renowned British naturalist and taxidermist whose life spanned the 19th century. He produced over 3,000 color plates of animals and, in the mid-1800s, published his now famous three-volume work: Mammals of Australia. This beautiful tome, which is a much sought after rarity for antique book collectors, ironically depicted a number of equally rare wildlife species. Perhaps the most famous of these images is Gould’s iconic rendering of the Thylacine—the now extinct “Tasmanian tiger.” It is almost as if Gould’s great gift was to define our view of this species just before it attained fame through extinction. …

Title: Cover Essay: John Gould and a Devil’s Despair
Authors: Peter Daszak
Aleksei Chmura
Publication date: 01-09-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: EcoHealth / Issue 3/2007
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Electronic ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-007-0127-z

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