false 2553092 4 Richard Fortey -- one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of <i>Life, Trilobite and Earth</i> -- describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, London’s Natural History Museum, a home of treasures -- plants from the voyage of Captain Cook, barnacles to which Charles Darwin devoted years of study, hidden accursed jewels -- pulses with life and miraculous surprises. In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill the museum. And with the museum’s hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Fortey’s scholarship dances with wit. Here is a book that is utterly entertaining from its first page to its last. 2561339 7 1 2008 Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum total:132|5:24|4:43|3:44|2:16|1:5| 132 461 429 57 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 3 1 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 19:58:33 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 20:02:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 24 16:31:38 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 16:34:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 0 false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 18:41:39 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 22:17:00 -0800 2008
I kept setting th...more...]]> 2436544 0307263622 9780307263629 24 13 3.49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828369m/2436544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2436544.Dry_Storeroom_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 0 false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 11:18:36 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 11:26:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2436544 0307263622 9780307263629 24 13 3.49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828369m/2436544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2436544.Dry_Storeroom_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 3 0 false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 03:43:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 05:12:12 -0700 2009 Dry Storeroom to Douglas Preston’s Dinosaurs in the Attic, though Fortey doesn’t come out ahead in the competition. On the other hand, his Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth was such a fine book that Dry Storeroom had e...more...]]> 2436544 0307263622 9780307263629 24 13 3.49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828369m/2436544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2436544.Dry_Storeroom_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 10:01:03 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:01:03 -0800 2009 "The Natural History Museum is, first and foremost, a celebration of what time has done to life," writes Fortey, whose engaging book similarly commemorates the vast record of life on Earth. As he meanders through the halls of the museum's back rooms, Fortey proves to be an excellent, witty...

more...]]> 2436544 0307263622 9780307263629 24 13 3.49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828369m/2436544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2436544.Dry_Storeroom_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 3 0 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:02:08 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:43:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 3 0 false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 17:36:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 11:40:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3104562 0007209894 9780007209897 8 2 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3104562.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 0 false Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 04:43:16 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 02:05:53 -0700 2008 Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum is about the behind-the-scenes work at the Natural History Museum in London. Whether you find that an appealing subject for a book depends, I suppose, on your feelings about museums and/or natural history; personally I found it irre...more...]]> 2436544 0307263622 9780307263629 24 13 3.49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828369m/2436544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2436544.Dry_Storeroom_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 0 false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 06:54:56 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 19:10:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 0 false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 14:58:15 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 06:30:19 -0800 2009 Dry Storeroom No. 1 informally explains the work of the British Natural History Museum. It is based on the author's 30+ years career at the museum and on conversations with other employees. The mixing of technical explanations with anecdotal tales provides insight into how scientists work as well ...more...]]> 2436544 0307263622 9780307263629 24 13 3.49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828369m/2436544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2436544.Dry_Storeroom_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 0 false Sat Dec 13 15:02:19 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 15:06:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2436544 0307263622 9780307263629 24 13 3.49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828369m/2436544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2436544.Dry_Storeroom_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 2 0 false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 18:06:28 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 18:32:16 -0800 2008
I was expecting a scholarly work of how curators and scientists interact with collections, what we learn from collectors' nutty obsessions...more...]]> 2436544 0307263622 9780307263629 24 13 3.49 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828369m/2436544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2436544.Dry_Storeroom_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 5 0 false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 18 12:09:06 -0700 2008 Wed May 20 18:28:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 5 0 false Wed Apr 15 18:17:28 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 18:21:17 -0700 2009 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 0 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu May 21 08:05:30 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 08:07:48 -0700 2009 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 2 0 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 12 12:59:06 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 30 11:51:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 0 false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 13:06:50 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 18:05:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 3 0 false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 13:32:47 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 13:35:04 -0800 2008 2553092 0007209886 9780007209880 96 42 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2553092.Dry_Store_Room_No_1_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Natural_History_Museum 4 0 false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 10:40:35 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 10:47:42 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2553092