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Animals Strike Curious Poses
Animals Strike Curious Poses
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A new collection of essays, Animals Strike Curious Poses, explores the stories of famous animals, including Yuka, Mozart's starling, Harriet's tortoise, and Jumbo. The essays are written in a medieval bestiary style and cover history, myth, science, and more.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 01 November 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently discovered in the Siberian permafrost, is the subject of sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses. These essays explore a variety of famous animals, each named and immortalized by humans. The starling that inspired Mozart with its song, Darwin's tortoise Harriet, and an extraordinary essay on Jumbo, the elephant, and the attempts to electrocute him, are among them. These witty, playful, and provocative essays span history, myth, science, and more, introducing a stunning new writer to British readers.
Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently discovered in the Siberian permafrost, is the subject of sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses. These essays explore a variety of famous animals, each named and immortalized by humans. The starling that inspired Mozart with its song, Darwin's tortoise Harriet, and an extraordinary essay on Jumbo, the elephant, and the attempts to electrocute him, are among them. These witty, playful, and provocative essays span history, myth, science, and more, introducing a stunning new writer to British readers.
Weight: 238g
Dimension: 170 x 197 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784707354
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