The Pope's Rhinoceros

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He has written four novels of historical fiction. Klappentext Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India! from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany! Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance. Zusammenfassung Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Norfolk
• Assisted by: Albrecht Durer (Illustration)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.1997
• EAN: 9780749398743
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9874-3
• No. of pages: 753
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 41 mm
• Series: Minerva Paperbacks; Minerva Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Generational sagas, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)