The Egyptians worshipped them, the Romans dressed them in ?tted coats, early Christians made the shepherd synonymous with their divine saviour. In Sheep, Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both the wild and domestic species of Ovis: from the Old World mou?on to the corkscrew-horned ?ocks of the Egyptians, to the 'Trojan sheep' of Homer's Odyssey, to the vast migratory mobs of Spanish merinos - all the way to Dolly the cloned ewe and the sheep-human hybrids of Haruki Murakami. Above all else, Sheep demonstrates that sometimes the most mundane animals turn out to be the most surprising.
Listen to Philip Armstrong discuss some astonishing facts about sheep in this interview with Radio New Zealand.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
In Sheep, a superb volume that more than meets the high bar set in the Reaktion Books Animal Series, the animal-studies scholar Philip Armstrong notes that no other domestic animal fades from view, even as we use it, quite as completely as the sheep before setting this situation to rights. In six chapters with titles such as Sheepishness and A Sheep-shaped World, each graced with gorgeous illustrations in natural and cultural history ranging from The exuberantly polycerate Jacob Sheep that can have up to six horns to Don Quixotes ovine delusion, Armstrong produces a sheep manifesto thats both delightful and disturbing. * <i>TLS</i> *
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100 illustrations, 68 in colour
Maße
Höhe: 190 mm
Breite: 134 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-78023-593-6 (9781780235936)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Philip Armstrong is Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. His books include What Animals Mean (2008).
