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Passarello, Elena.
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Famous animals -- Miscellanea.
Famous animals -- Essays.
Animals -- Miscellanea
Animals -- Essays.
American essays -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century
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Passarello, Elena.
Famous animals -- Miscellanea.
Famous animals -- Essays.
Animals -- Miscellanea
Animals -- Essays.
American essays -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century
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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
.
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Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
814.6 P286a
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