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"Ghosts behind Glass is a moving exploration of displays of extinct animals in museums around the world. Dolly J²rgensen, a historian of the environment and technology, traveled to over seventy museums to walk their displays of extinct life, and she brings her expertise to this short, illustrated book of reflections. What do museum displays reveal about how we think and communicate about extinction? In a way that is, perhaps miraculously, both deeply sad and hopeful, J²rgensen thematically explores her encounters with what she calls the "ghosts behind glass." It would be easy to associate the contemporary extinction crisis with disappearance-after all, animal populations are rapidly disappearing-but this book instead turns our gaze to the ongoing presence of the extinct. Using a mix of historical storytelling and first-hand description, the chapters respectfully animate the remains of the extinct"--