Lecture: Richard Fortey on London's Nat'l Hist. Museum
September 11, 2008 - 5:30 PM
Peabody Museum Auditorium - 170 Whitney Ave.
Award-winning author Richard Fortey describes his 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.
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