Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer by Matthew Gavin Frank

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

Matthew Gavin Frank

320 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays history science reflective slow-paced

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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 Ha...

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