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Description for Tortoise
Paperback. Tortoise is the first cultural and natural history of these long-lived and intriguing creatures, which have existed for more than 200 million years. Series: Animal S. Num Pages: 208 pages, 67 black & white illustrations, 36 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
Tortoise is the first cultural and natural history of these long-lived and intriguing creatures, which have existed for more than 200 million years. The book covers tortoises worldwide, in evolution, myth and reality, ranging across palaeontology, natural history, myth, folklore, art forms, literature, veterinary medicine and trade regulations. The tortoise has been seen as an Atlas-like creature supporting the world, as the origin of music and as a philosophical paradox. Peter Young examines the tortoise in all these guises, as well as a military tactical formation, its exploitation by mariners and others for food, as ornament (in tortoiseshell), as ... Read more
Tortoise is the first cultural and natural history of these long-lived and intriguing creatures, which have existed for more than 200 million years. The book covers tortoises worldwide, in evolution, myth and reality, ranging across palaeontology, natural history, myth, folklore, art forms, literature, veterinary medicine and trade regulations. The tortoise has been seen as an Atlas-like creature supporting the world, as the origin of music and as a philosophical paradox. Peter Young examines the tortoise in all these guises, as well as a military tactical formation, its exploitation by mariners and others for food, as ornament (in tortoiseshell), as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Animal S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861891914
SKU
V9781861891914
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Peter Young
Peter Young is an independent scholar who lives in Crawley, West Sussex. He is the author of Swan (Reaktion Books, 2007). Timothy Tortoise, to whom this book is dedicated, has been a member of his family for more than 50 years.
Reviews for Tortoise
Peter Young's Tortoise ... can be warmly recommended.
Jonathan Bate The Times Peter Young is clearly a tortoise lover, and writes knowledgeably about the growing efforts to conserve these animals, both in and ex situ. But really, his whole book does its bit towards tortoise conservation, by raising the reader's awareness of the major part which tortoises have always ... Read more
Jonathan Bate The Times Peter Young is clearly a tortoise lover, and writes knowledgeably about the growing efforts to conserve these animals, both in and ex situ. But really, his whole book does its bit towards tortoise conservation, by raising the reader's awareness of the major part which tortoises have always ... Read more