- Condition: New
- Hardcover: 204 pages with dust jacket
- Publisher: Saiga Publishing Ltd. (1983)
- Language: English
- Illustrations: Colour plates and B&W photos
- ISBN-10: 0862300622
- ISBN-13: 978-0862300623
- Product Dimensions: 25.5 x 19.3 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 830 g
Contents:
| 1. Birds 2. Mounting a Fox Mask 3. Mammals 4. Tanning 5. Rug Making 6. Fish 7. Wax Leaves and Vegetation | 8. Freeze Dried Work 9. Combined Taxidermy 10. General Guide to a Taxidermy 11. Possible Future Developments Appendix - I to V Index |
About the Author
Peter Andrew O'Connor (Born in London 1933) was introduced to taxidermy as a boy scout at Jarrow-upon-Tyne, later becoming a commercial taxidermist at Luton, Bedfordshire, in 1964, and then expanding into European taxidermy. In 1970 he moved into research taxidermy on the freeze drying techniques created by Reg Harris. He was the first successful taxidermist to do so, and developed these freeze drying techniques to a commercial level. Eventually he developed a new field to taxidermy called Combined Taxidermy.
He has been the Chairman of the Taxidermists Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, since its inception in 1973. His work appears in over seventy museums in the British Isles alone, besides appearing as far afield as Japan, Australia and the West Coast of the USA, and covers all forms of taxidermy work. Mr. O'Connor is a teacher and lecturer of taxidermy, and has written many papers on the subject, including a book called Fish Taxidermy. He has been a keen naturalist since boyhood, and is a European Wildlife Conservationist *¹