Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy
by Lawrence Weschler
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Author: Lawrence WeschlerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-11-26
ISBN: 0679764895
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Buy this book, it is quite wonderful & will amaze
Summary: 5 Stars
Those of you who have read any of my other reviews or looked at my old listmania! will have seen that I love random eclecticism, whereby the interconnectivity of virtually anything can be documented by those with an open mind. If you have know of the work of Greil Marcus, then you should appreciate this too - on the proviso that you know that this isn't a music book. Rather it tackles the subject of wonder in museums & the personalities of the people who had or have set them up. This all sounds very weighty, but Lawrence Weschler is such a great writer that it is a joy to read, you learn an awful lot, but, best of all, your sense of the strange & amazing is revived on every page.
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