Abstract
Kemp features Lionel Walter Rothschild, a useless banker who spent a mountain of cash creating an unparalleled natural history collection--then blew it spectacularly. Rothschild collected biological specimens from far and wide in an era when exotic travel was a difficult, costly and dangerous job; one the timid baron was happy to outsource. For 40 years, Rothschild ran his natural history empire from Tring. The museum and his mistresses had taken a huge toll on his finances, and his extended family was in no mood to bail him out. So he decided to sell his most valuable asset--his superlatively stocked, irreplaceable collection of bird skins--to the American Museum of Natural History in New York
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