AOT #355: Simon Winchester Podcasts Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection
January 14, 2013 by Rob
Filed under Book Store Events
Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, A Crack in the Edge of the World, The Man Who Loved China, and more than a dozen other books. Mr. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Elizabeth II in 2006. Winchester discusses his fascinating new book Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection. In this captivating and visually stunning book, Winchester explores an array of more than 300 animal skulls, from the aardvark to the red-bellied piranha, and shares the fascinating story of the man who amassed much of the collection: an obsessive Englishman named Alan Dudley.
($29.95) Black Dog & Leventhal ISBN # 9781579129125. You can visit Simon Winchester’s official web site as well.
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