Author: ELENA PASSARELLO Title: Animals Strike Curious Poses
Description: Penguin Random House, 2017. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 256. 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. ISBN: 9781787330306. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781787330306
Price: EUR 12.50 = appr. US$ 13.59 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2176974
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