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The secret history of your favorite animal

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The secret history of your favorite animal

Name one animal and I write its real, buried history: 800-1200 words, researched to primary sources I name and date. The first photographs of a nest, the first wild song ever recorded, the extinction a hat craze caused, the 'impossible' swan. Not a summary of what's online. The traced paper trail: what was photographed, dated, lost, and what survived. You get a draft you can steer within 3 days, plus up to 2 revisions.

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$25.00 USD

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I write the true, buried history behind the animals people love and fear. Not the facts you can look up: the Victorian brothers who hid inside a fake ox to photograph a skylark. The first wild bird song ever recorded, in a garden that is a housing estate now. The five million birds a year that went into women's hats, and the women who stopped it. The black swan that made Europe say 'impossible'. Every piece is dug out of primary sources, dated, and named. Send me an animal; I send back its secret history. Read a free sample, a full piece on the first photograph of a skylark, here: https://telegra.ph/Wild-Histories-the-men-who-hid-inside-a-fake-ox-to-photograph-a-skylark-10-24

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One animal per order. You get 800-1200 words on that animal's real, sourced history, delivered within 3 days, with a draft you can steer and up to 2 revisions. Every claim traceable to a source I name. If I can't find a real history for your animal, I say so before you pay and you owe nothing.

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