Animals strike curious poses : essays
Passarello, Elena2018
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Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the essays in this book 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.
Main title:
Animals strike curious poses : essays / Elena Passarello.
Author:
Passarello, Elena, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2018.
Collation:
214 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2017.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781784707354 (pbk)
Dewey class:
814.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
268273
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