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001 2012934523
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005 20140116131043.0
008 120301s2013 paua 000 1 eng d
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020 $a9781594746161 (hbk.)
020 $a1594746168 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn824726333
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050 00 $aPS3608.U349625$bR47 2013
082 04 $a813.6$223
100 1 $aHudspeth, E. B.,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe resurrectionist :$bthe lost work of Dr Spencer Black /$cE. B. Hudspeth.
264 1 $aPhiladelphia :$bQuirk Books,$c[2013].
264 4 $c©2013.
300 $a191 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c28 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $aPhiladelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts, mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs, were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black's magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray's Anatomy for mythological beasts, dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus. all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman.
650 0 $aPhysicians$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vBiography$vFiction.
650 0 $aAnimals, Mythical$vFiction.
650 0 $aEvolution$vFiction.
651 0 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$y19th century$vFiction.