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Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer
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| #808644 in Books | 2015-06-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.30 x.90 x4.60l,.0 | File type: PDF | 320 pages||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 )
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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 easily download any file type for your gadget.Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer | Matthew Gavin Frank.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
