13%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Wild Boar
Dorothy Yamamoto
€ 23.99
€ 20.79
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Wild Boar
Paperback. .
Tough, resourceful and omnivorous, wild boar are the ancestors of domestic pigs. From earliest times, wild boar have presented humans with both opportunity and threat: they are a valuable food source, but also a formidable foe carrying tusks that can inflict terrible injuries. Today, boar are impinging on people's lives in new ways, scouting into cities such as Berlin and Tokyo, or establishing populations in areas such as the Forest of Dean in England. Wild Boar traces the history of the interaction between humans and wild boar, from the iconic beasts of myth and legend, such as the Calydonian Boar, ... Read more
Tough, resourceful and omnivorous, wild boar are the ancestors of domestic pigs. From earliest times, wild boar have presented humans with both opportunity and threat: they are a valuable food source, but also a formidable foe carrying tusks that can inflict terrible injuries. Today, boar are impinging on people's lives in new ways, scouting into cities such as Berlin and Tokyo, or establishing populations in areas such as the Forest of Dean in England. Wild Boar traces the history of the interaction between humans and wild boar, from the iconic beasts of myth and legend, such as the Calydonian Boar, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Animal
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237619
SKU
V9781780237619
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Dorothy Yamamoto
Dorothy Yamamoto is the author of Guinea Pig (Reaktion, 2015) and The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature (2000). She is based in Oxford.
Reviews for Wild Boar