[PDF.99mo] Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer

Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer

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 | #1129203 in Books |  2015-06-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.30 x.90 x4.60l,.0 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| More than just a squid...|By Stephanie E. Post|Delightfully unexpected! Yes, it contains the biography of Moses Harvey, the first man to obtain a photograph of a giant squid, but from that jumping off point the discussion alights on topics ranging from family, death, insects, ice cream, pain, guilt, commerce, obsession, otherness, and mythology. Miraculously, no matter how biza| |“Slyly charming. . . . stunning writing and perversely wonderful research. . . . Alluring. It’s hard to imagine a better book about not entirely understanding giant squids.”
- Jon Mooallem, New York Times Book

Memory, mythology, and obsession collide in this “slyly charming” (New York Times Book Review) account of the giant squid.

In 1874, Moses Harvey―eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist―was the first person to photograph the near-mythic giant squid, draping it over his shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what begins as Harvey’s story becomes spectacularly &ldquo...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer   |  Matthew Gavin Frank. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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