PREPARING THE GHOST: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Liveright, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in which "memory, mythology, and obsession collide . . Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude." One review called this is a "deliciously delirious layering of science, biography, history, mystery, linguistics, myth, philosophy, epistemology, adventure, travel . . a truly great essay. Illustrated with small drawings. Sources. xi, Small format. 297 pp. ISBN: 978-0871402837.
Condition: Fine in a good only dust jacket (approximately half of the rear flap of the dust jacket has been cut off)
Book ID: 85207
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