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Product DescriptionWhen the first British visitors arrived on Australia's shores at the end of the eighteenth century, it was not only the potential of its space that tantalised them, but the extraordinary living things that they found there. Every European collector worth his salt desired a kangaroo, a parakeet, a waratah, and ship after ship sailed north loaded with Australia's remarkable natural history specimens. In 1826, the most serious collector to make his own trip to the antipodes arrived his name was Alexander Macleay, and over 70 years he and his family accumulated an unbelievably rich and diverse collection of specimens from Australia itself and beyond. Museum throws open the doors of a historically rich and rare collection, stunningly captured in the images of Robyn Stacey. It reclaims the stories of those specimens, and those obsessions, revealing another chapter of Australia's own very particular, passionate and unique history.Review'The photographs in Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay's Museum vividly illustrate the stunning beauty of Macleay's insect collections Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay provide a detailed and readable account of the Macleay family, their passions and their collections. The text has been kept comparatively brief to allow generous space for the extraordinary images that follow it. It will whet its readers' appetites, leaving them eager to know more about the culture of natural history that shaped the Macleays and their collections.' The Times Literary SupplementBook DescriptionMuseum presents a new telling of the richness of Australia's natural history.About the AuthorRobyn Stacey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication, Design and Media at the University of Western Sydney. She is one of Australia's most acclaimed photographers and has exhibited her photographic work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally since the mid1980s to high critical acclaim. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries in Australia and Art Bank, as well as in university and private collections, both here and abroad.Ashley Hay has written two books of narrative nonfiction, The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron (Duffy and Snellgrove, 2000), and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions (Duffy and Snellgrove, 2002). She has also published essays and short fiction and works for The Bulletin.
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