Description
| Product ID: | 9781784707354 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Animals Strike Curious Poses |
| Authors: | Author: Elena Passarello |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Animals and society, Wildlife: general interest, Animals & society, Wildlife: general interest |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are the starling that inspired Mozart with its song, Darwin’s tortoise Harriet, and in an extraordinary essay, Jumbo the elephant (and how they tried to electrocute him). Modelled loosely on a medieval bestiary, these witty , playful, provocative essays traverse history, myth, science and more, introducing a stunning new writer to British readers. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-11-01 |