Sheep
Armstrong, Philip, 1967-2017
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The ancient Egyptians worshipped them, the Romans dressed them in fitted coats, and the Christians associated them with their divine saviour. In this book, Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both wild and domestic species of ovis, from the Old World mouflon to the corkscrew-horned flocks of the Egyptians, from the Trojan sheep of Homer's Odyssey to the cannibal sheep of Thomas More's Utopia, from the vast migratory mobs of Spanish merinos all the way to Dolly - the first animal we have ever cloned - and Haruki Murakami's sheep-human hybrids.
Main title:
Sheep / Philip Armstrong.
Author:
Armstrong, Philip, 1967-, author
Imprint:
London : Reaktion Books, 2016.
Collation:
200 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 19 cm.
Series title:
Animal ; 159.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781780235936 (pbk)
Dewey class:
636.3
LC class:
SF375
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1445295
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