Nature's Memory - Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums

Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in the world's natural history museums and is therefore particularly well placed to guide the reader through some spectacular, awe-inspiring collections. Importantly, he also invites a more critical and objective approach to interpretation of these wonders, arguing that curation has often obscured reality and presented a varnished or manipulated version of the truth. Taking in the effects of cultural scientific bias, colonialism, catastrophic biodiversity loss and climate change, he argues that natural history museums will emerge as indispensable resources in the fight to preserve our planet and its complex ecosystems.

Paperback, 336 pages
Measures 19.7 x 12.8 x 2.1cm