[An] engagingly offbeat study .
Akeley started small by stuffing a canary, but by the end of his life he had creat.
Madden starts his journey with the life story of Carl Akeley, the father of modern taxidermy. -- The Wall Street Journal Why would someone want to create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? That\'s the question Dave Madden explores in The Authentic Animal . let\'s us in on the bizarre and sometimes repellent World of taxidermy. . . [An] engagingly offbeat study