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ANIMALS STRIKE CURIOUS POSES

PASSARELLO, ELENA

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Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essay s in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are the starling tha t inspired Mozart with its song, Darwins 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 and sci ence.

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DetailsJ. CAPE
2017
256 Pages
Format: Tela
ISBN: 9781787330306
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Zoology

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