Animals Strike Curious Poses

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Passarello
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2018
• EAN: 9781784707354
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-735-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Literaturwissenschaft, Tierschutz, Tier, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Literarische Essays, Tierwelt: Sachbuch, Folklore, Mythen und Legenden, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, NATURE / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Naturschutz / Tierschutz, Zoologie / Tier, Englische Belletristik / Essay, Feuilleton, Reportage, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Essay, Helen macdonald h is for hawk; grief is the thing with feathers max porter; james rebanks the shephard's life; the running sky tim dee; the outrun amy liptrot; sarah manguso; joan didion; martin amis; zadie smith, Animals & society, Folklore, myths & legends, Social and cultural history, Literary essays, Folklore, myths and legends, Animals and society, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)