Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer

by Matthew Gavin Frank

Book Overview

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 "slippery and many-armed" (NewYorker.com) as Matthew Gavin Frank winds his narrative tentacles around history, creative nonfiction, science, memoir, and meditations about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631490567
• ISBN13: 9781631490569
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 7.2"