What happens when a seven-year-old from one of the richest families in the world decides he’s going to build a museum — and actually does it?
Walter Rothschild wasn’t supposed to be a naturalist. He was born into the most powerful banking dynasty in England and groomed to inherit an empire of finance. But from the moment he discovered taxidermy as a child on his family’s Tring Park estate, nothing could redirect his obsession. By age 10, he had enough specimens to fill a garden shed. By 21, his father had built him an entire museum.
This is the moment it all began.
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