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Animals Strike Curious Poses
  • Published: 15 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784707354
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
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Animals Strike Curious Poses

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2 Nov 2017
Paperback
15 Nov 2018
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‘It might be the best book on animals I have ever read. It’s also the only one that made me laugh out loud.’ Helen Macdonald, author of His for Hawk

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 immortalised by humans. Here are the starling that inspired Mozart with its song, Darwin’s tortoise Harriet, and in an extraordinary essay, Jumbo the elephant (and how they tried to electrocute him). Modelled loosely on a medieval bestiary, these witty , playful, provocative essays traverse history, myth, science and more, introducing a stunning new writer to British readers.
  • Published: 15 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784707354
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Elena Passarello

Elena Passarello is an actor, writer and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Fellowship in non-fiction. Her first collection of essays, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards. Her essays on performance, pop culture and the natural world have appeared in Oxford American, Slate, Creative Nonfiction and the Iowa Review. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Praise for Animals Strike Curious Poses

I think it's the best book on animals I've ever read. A joy

Helen Macdonald, Guardian