Sloths
A Celebration of the World's Most Misunderstood Mammal
Published on 3. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-78649-425-2 (ISBN)
Description
How old is the sloth?
How do sloths have sex?
How did a sloth save Dublin?
The answers to these questions, and more, are found in this wonderfully entertaining celebration of the sloth. Walking readers through the sloth's evolutionary history - from the prehistoric ground sloth to modern pygmy - William Hartston reveals the sloth's fascinating journey from maligned mammal to cause celebre. Playfully peppered with science and filled with factoids, Sloths is a love-letter to the most anachronistic, and just a little bit ridiculous, of animals.
'Riveting... Sloths is as comprehensive a look at the instincts, lifestyle and capacities of this curious creature as you are ever likely to need.' Daily Express
How do sloths have sex?
How did a sloth save Dublin?
The answers to these questions, and more, are found in this wonderfully entertaining celebration of the sloth. Walking readers through the sloth's evolutionary history - from the prehistoric ground sloth to modern pygmy - William Hartston reveals the sloth's fascinating journey from maligned mammal to cause celebre. Playfully peppered with science and filled with factoids, Sloths is a love-letter to the most anachronistic, and just a little bit ridiculous, of animals.
'Riveting... Sloths is as comprehensive a look at the instincts, lifestyle and capacities of this curious creature as you are ever likely to need.' Daily Express
Reviews / Votes
Fascinating... Hartston writes all this with his customary wit and an obvious joy in discovery. -- Marcus Berkmann * Daily Mail * Riveting... Sloths! is as comprehensive a look at the instincts, lifestyle and capacities of this curious creature as you are ever likely to need... [A] beautifully written gem * Daily Express *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
3x8pp colour plates
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78649-425-2 (9781786494252)
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E-Book
10/2018
Atlantic Books
€6.99
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Person
William Hartston is a Cambridge-educated mathematician and industrial psychologist. Between 1962 and 1987 he played chess competitively, becoming an international master and winning the British chess championship in 1973 and 1975. He runs competitions in creative thinking at the annual Mind Sports Olympiad, writes the off-beat Beachcomber column for the Daily Express, where he is also the opera critic, and is the author of several books on chess, numbers, humour and trivia, including The Things That Nobody Knows and Even More Things That Nobody Knows. He is also one of the viewers on Channel 4's Gogglebox.
Content
1: A Sloth by Any Other Name 2: Two Toes or Three? 3: The Sloth that Saved Dublin 4: New Sloths for Old 5: Are Sloths Slothful? 6: Anatomy 7: Sex and the Solitary Sloth 8: The Deadly Sin 9: Pooping 10: The Abominable Slothman, and Other Myths 11: Sloths Eating, and Eating Sloths 12: Sloth Conservation 13: Sloths in Culture 14: Oddments 15: Costa Rica