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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Passarello, Elena.     Subjects     Famous animals -- Miscellanea.     Famous animals -- Essays.     Animals -- Miscellanea     Animals -- Essays.     American essays -- Women authors.     American essays -- 21st century     Browse Catalog     by author:      Passarello, Elena.       by title:      Animals strike curio...       by call number:      814.6 P286a     Search the Web     Passarello, Elena.     Famous animals -- Miscellanea.     Famous animals -- Essays.     Animals -- Miscellanea     Animals -- Essays.     American essays -- Women authors.     American essays -- 21st century       MARC Display

Animals strike curious poses : essays / Elena Passarello. by Passarello, Elena. Sarabande Books, [2017] Call #: 814.6 P286a Subjects Famous animals -- Miscellanea.   Famous animals -- Essays.   Animals -- Miscellanea   Animals -- Essays.   American essays -- Women authors.   American essays -- 21st century ISBN:  9781941411391 (hc.) Description:  214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (27 unnumbered pages). Contents:  Yuka (39,000 BP) -- The wolf of Gubbio (1207) -- Ganda (1515) -- Sackerson (1601) -- Joeffry (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). Summary:  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.Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays 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 and writer. She writes on pop culture, music, performing arts and the natural world. Her first essay collection was Let Me Clear My Throat. She is an assistant professor in creative writing in the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University. Genre:  Essays. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 814.6 P286a Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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