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Animals Strike Curious Poses

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Animals Strike Curious Poses

By Elena Passarello

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About the book

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 tr...Show more

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9781784707354

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Published year

2018

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1

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Animals Strike Curious Poses

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Paperback

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