{"product_id":"finders-keepers-treasures-and-oddities-of-natural-history-9780393310870","title":"Finders  Keepers: Treasures and Oddities of Natural History","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost of us collect things  but seldom have entire collections been preserved. A few that did survive have fallen  figuratively  into the clutches of two of Americas most innovative minds: photographer Rosamond Wolff Purcell and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. What these collections say about the collectors  and about human beings in general  is the subject of this strangely beautiful and rich compendium. Here are Purcells wonderfully exotic photographs of teeth and other human artifacts from the collection of Peter the Great; moles  pigs  and dogs from van Heurns many boxes of perfectly preserved skins; and all manner of preserved life from Rothschilds Birds of Paradise to the fish of Agassiz. Here also is Gould at his best  delighting in the unusual and making connections to our own history and evolution that only the most fertile and whimsical mind could imagine - and that few will be able to resist. This is a book for those with a craving for beauty  knowledge  and a fascination with the unusual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953225424949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393310876","price":26.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393310870.jpg?v=1788182145","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/finders-keepers-treasures-and-oddities-of-natural-history-9780393310870","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}