A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus

A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania

Cassandra Pybus

336 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history
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In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who could supply them with exotic specimens, including skeletons of the thylacine and ...

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