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Author : Sir Pilkington-Smythe
Release : 2010
Genre : Exotic animals
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 304/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Beastly Menagerie by : Sir Pilkington-Smythe
Download or read book A Beastly Menagerie written by Sir Pilkington-Smythe. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pilkington-Smythe
Release : 2013-04-02
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 468/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beastly Menagerie by : Pilkington-Smythe
Download or read book Beastly Menagerie written by Pilkington-Smythe. This book was released on 2013-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day bestiary of the most incredible animals the world has ever seen—with 200 full-color illustrations Our planet is a writhing mass of wondrous life, positively popping at the seams with peculiar creatures. Life has wriggled its way into every conceivable nook and cranny, and nature has belched out organisms into even the most inhospitable environments. A Beastly Menagerie is a compendium of 100 of these most curious of creatures, from beasts that can fit on a pinhead and survive a saunter into space, to sea creatures just waiting for an excuse to smash a ship to smithereens. And let's not forget to mention the remarkable Jesus Christ lizard, the bone-eating snot flower, the pink fairy armadillo, and the zombie fly. This beautifully illustrated collection will delight and bedazzle fans of the amazing animal kingdom in equal measure. Narrated by the affable eccentric Sir Pilkington-Smythe and assisted by his cronies at The Proceedings of the Ever So Strange, each entry is an enlightening and marvelous foray into our world and all its wonders . . . topped off with a soupçon of silliness. An excerpt Sharks are pretty pleased with themselves, and so they should be. You see, they are basically rippling slabs of muscle in gunmetal grey, with row upon row of huge razor-sharp teeth—awesome eating machines that have remained unchanged for millennia. . . . Of course, some sharks don't look so tough. Think of the bizarre hammerhead, goblin, and frilled sharks. Not that they're to be trifled with. And then there's the cookie cutter shark, a sniveling little guttersnipe who looks more like a fat lady's arm holding a kitchen utensil than the pinnacle of predatory evolution.
Author : Sir Pilkington-Smythe
Release : 2010
Genre : Exotic animals
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 868/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Beastly Menagerie by : Sir Pilkington-Smythe
Download or read book A Beastly Menagerie written by Sir Pilkington-Smythe. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day bestiary of the most incredible animals the world has ever seen--with 200 full-color illustrations A Beastly Menagerie is a lavishly illustrated guide to the strangest creatures in the animal kingdom. Written and presented in a mock-Victorian style by the author's alter-ego, Sir Pilkington-Smythe, it contains fascinating and hilarious insights into 100 different bizarre animals. Each entry is factually accurate and rigorously researched. A little bit of it has judiciously leaked onto the Internet in the form of a blog-- The Ever So Strange Animal Almanac (weirdimals.wordpress.com)--where it has met with phenomenal success. An excerpt Sharks are pretty pleased with themselves, and so they should be. You see, they are basically rippling slabs of muscle in gunmetal grey, with row upon row of huge razor-sharp teeth--awesome eating machines that have remained unchanged for millennia. ... Of course, some sharks don't look so tough. Think of the bizarre hammerhead, goblin, and frilled sharks. Not that they're to be trifled with. And then there's the cookie cutter shark, a sniveling little guttersnipe who looks more like a fat lady's arm holding a kitchen utensil than the pinnacle of predatory evolution. Sir Pilkington-Smythe is an erstwhile scholar, self-professed connoisseur, raconteur, and bon vivant who gallivants around the globe in search of the most outlandish anecdotes, and this is his bestiary. Danny Beck helps him out with his bags and with big words. An award-winning writer and filmmaker with a BS in biology, he is also an ardent naturalist.
Author : Robert L. Forbes
Release : 2007
Genre : Animals
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beastly Feasts by : Robert L. Forbes
Download or read book Beastly Feasts written by Robert L. Forbes. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of delectable rhymes about animals naughty and nice with a secret critter peeping out from each page from master cartoonist Robert Searle.
Author : Dorothee Brantz
Release : 2010-08-03
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 954/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beastly Natures by : Dorothee Brantz
Download or read book Beastly Natures written by Dorothee Brantz. This book was released on 2010-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them, but to capture or kill them, is found in all civilizations. The essays collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in problematic ways, to our concept of the wild. The book begins with a group of essays that approach the historical relevance of human-animal relations seen from the perspectives of various disciplines and suggest ways in which animals might be brought into formal studies of history. Differences in species and location can greatly affect the shape of human-animal interaction, and so the essays that follow address a wide spectrum of topics, including the demanding fate of the working horse, the complex image of the American alligator (at turns a dangerous predator and a tourist attraction), the zoo gardens of Victorian England, the iconography of the rhinoceros and the preference it reveals in society for myth over science, relations between humans and wolves in Europe, and what we can learn from society’s enthusiasm for "political" animals, such as the pets of the American presidents and the Soviet Union’s "space dogs." Taken together, these essays suggest new ways of looking not only at animals but at human history. Contributors Mark V. Barrow Jr., Virginia Tech * Peter Edwards, Roehampton University * Kelly Enright, Rutgers University * Oliver Hochadel, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona * Uwe Lübken, Rachel Carson Center, Munich * Garry Marvin, Roehampton University * Clay McShane, Northeastern University * Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech * Susan Pearson, Northwestern University * Helena Pycior, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee * Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee * Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University * Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University
