Mister Peale's Mammoth

by Samuel Epstein and Beryl Williams Epstein

Book Overview

Enthralled by the new science of natural history, a famous American painter establishes a museum in his home and organizes a scientific expedition to find and dig up a complete mammoth skeleton. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0698306473
• ISBN13: 9780698306479
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An outstanding book for boys and girls!

Enthralled by the new science of natural history, a famous American painter establishes a museum in his home and organizes a scientific expedition to find and dig up a complete mammoth skeleton. "MR. PEAL, EVER DESIROUS TO PLEASE AND ENTERTAIN THE PUBLIC, WILL MAKE A PART OF HIS HOUSE A REPOSITORY FOR NATURAL CURIOSITIES." With this intriguing announcement, artist Charles Peale meant to lure Philadelphians to his new museum. There were snakes in rocky grottoes, water birds in watery scenes, and for those visitors with a special curiosity, a live cow with two heads, five legs, and six feet. The museum attracted visitors from miles around. But sometimes Mr. Peale thought wistfully of the one exhibit that would make his museum world-famous; if only he could obtain the skeleton of an American mammoth. How Mr. Peale's Museum grew and how he launched America's first scientific expedition makes a fascinating tale. This book has illustrations by Martim Avillez, who became enthralled by the new science of natural history, and whose illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, as well as in Harper's Magazine and New York Magazine.