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Dave Madden




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The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy Dave Madden St. Martin's Press $25.00
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Read more and comment... 		Ever find yourself wondering what possessed people to skin and stuff animals and then mount them on their walls or build dioramas based around them and install them in giant glass cases in museums?  Well, wonder no more!  University of Alabama professor and Copacetic customer Dave Madden has spent the last several years of his life putting together a book that answers this very question.  Beginning with the "father of modern taxidermy," Carl Akeley, who created the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, Madden continues on a journey that brings him to the World Taxidermy Championships, a taxidermy academy, the garage workshops of taxidermy enthusiasts and many other taxidermy-related locales, as he spares no expense (affordable by someone living on a professor's salary) to bring his readers this "thought-provoking blend of history, biology and philosophy."