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Animals strike curious poses : essays
Sixteen essays about individual animals, including wild (woolly mammoth, rhinoceros, starling, crocodile, gorilla, lion) and domesticated (housecat, racing pigeons, elephant, horses, goats), named and made famous by humans.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781941411391
- ISBN: 1941411398
- Physical Description: 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Yuka (39,000 BP) -- The wolf of Gubbio (1207) -- Ganda (1515) -- Sackerson (1601) -- Jeoffry (1760) -- Vogel Staar (1784) -- Harriet (1835) -- War pigs (1870-2012) -- Jumbo II (1901) -- Four horsemen (1904-2012) -- Mike (1945) -- Arabella (1973) -- Lancelot (1985) -- Koko (1988) -- Osama (1998) -- Celia (2003) -- Cecil (2015). |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Famous animals Famous animals Miscellanea Famous animals Animals HISTORY / Essays HUMOR / Animals LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays NATURE / Animals |
| Genre: | Essays. Miscellanea. Trivia and miscellanea. Essays. Trivia and miscellanea. Essays. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | 814.6 PAS (Text) | 000142950 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Animals Strike Curious Poses
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Animals Strike Curious Poses
Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whipsmart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life. Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Fellowship in nonfiction. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat , won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.
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