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Animals Strike Curious Poses

by Elena Passarello
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"It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud." —Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whip-smart essays, from a winner of a Whiting Award for nonfiction, traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.

"Stunning . . . Passarello's keen wit is on display throughout as she raises questions about the uniqueness of humans. . . . A feast of surprising juxtapositions and gorgeous prose." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"I've spent decades reading books on the roles animals play in human cultures, but none have ever made me think, and feel, as much as this one. It's a devastating meditation on our relationship to the natural world." —Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review
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Publisher: Sarabande Books

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  • Release date: February 6, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9781941411407
  • File size: 7650 KB
  • Release date: February 6, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9781941411407
  • File size: 7650 KB
  • Release date: February 6, 2017
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History Nature Nonfiction Humor (Nonfiction)

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English

"It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud." —Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whip-smart essays, from a winner of a Whiting Award for nonfiction, traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.

"Stunning . . . Passarello's keen wit is on display throughout as she raises questions about the uniqueness of humans. . . . A feast of surprising juxtapositions and gorgeous prose." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"I've spent decades reading books on the roles animals play in human cultures, but none have ever made me think, and feel, as much as this one. It's a devastating meditation on our relationship to the natural world." —Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review
Expand title description text
History Nature Nonfiction Humor (Nonfiction)