Home taxidermy for pleasure and profit
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit, published by Albert Burton Farnham in 1916, is a practical manual for the amateur who wants to preserve birds, small mammals, fish and game heads without professional training. Farnham, who wrote for the sporting and trapping press, describes the tools and chemicals needed, how to skin and clean a specimen, how to make bodies of excelsior and wire, how to set eyes and model features, how to mount animals in lifelike attitudes, and how to make rugs, panels and cases. He also covers tanning, the collecting of specimens, and the business side of working for hunters. The instructions are brief, concrete and illustrated. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Yes. Home taxidermy for pleasure and profit by Albert Burton Farnham is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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About 2 h 43 min of reading, at an average reading pace. Your place is saved automatically when you are signed in, so you can read in several sittings and on several devices.
What kind of book is Home taxidermy for pleasure and profit?
Home taxidermy for pleasure and profit by Albert Burton Farnham is filed under "Classics" in the Vinteuil library.
