Nature'S MemoryA behind the scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing how their hidden secrets can help us in the fight against climate change Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain's natural history museums, and in Nature's Memory he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections, from marvellous mounted whale skeletons and impossibly tiny insect cabinets to buried treasures in vast museum storehouses. But

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