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Hope: The Story of the Blue Whale - Couverture souple

Sabin, Richard; Cornish, Lorraine

 
9780565094775: Hope: The Story of the Blue Whale
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0565094777 ISBN 13 : 9780565094775
Editeur : The Natural History Museum, 2019

Synopsis

Hope is the new icon of the Natural History Museum, a stunning 9,000 pound, 82-foot-long blue whale skeleton.

Suspended by steel wires and captured in a majestic swooping posture, her reconstruction is a work of art as well as a feat of engineering.

Her story begins in 1891 when she was found beached off the coast of Ireland. A lucrative find for a local fisherman, her skeletal remains were sold to the Museum.

The project to restore her took three years to complete, including 10 months of painstaking laboratory work to clean and repair each of her 221 bones.

Combining the latest scientific research into the blue whale with behind-the-scenes imagery, this book sheds new light on the largest creature ever to have lived on Earth.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lorraine Cornish is Head of Conservation at the Natural History Museum. She led the installation of Hope's 4.5-ton skeleton.<br?
Richard Sabin is the Principle Curator for Mammals at the Natural History Museum.

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Éditeur
The Natural History Museum
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0565094777
ISBN 13 
9780565094775
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
72
Coordonnées du fabricant
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