Animals strike curious poses
Subtitle: essays
By: Elena Passarello
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781941411391
Subjects: Miscellanea; Famous animals
Work titles: Essays
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (27 unnumbered pages).
Table of contents: title: Yuka (39,000 BP); title: The wolf of Gubbio (1207); title: Ganda (1515); title: Sackerson (1601); title: Joeffry (1760); title: Vogel Staar (1784); title: Harriet (1835); title: War pigs (1870-2012); title: Jumbo II (1901); title: Four horsemen (1904-2012); title: Mike (1945); title: Arabella (1973); title: Lancelot (1985); title: Koko (1988); title: Osama (1998); title: Celia (2003); title: Cecil (2015).