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What Species of Creatures
Animal Relations from the New World
- Sharon Kirsch
- Non-Fiction
- 240 pages, 6×9 inches
- Price: $19 CAD
- ISBN-10: 1554200407
- ISBN-13: 9781554200405
- Date published: 2008-11-15
- Availability: in print & available
About What Species of Creatures
The Europeans who colonized North America more than three centuries ago encountered fantastical creatures: flying squirrels, ruby–throated hummingbirds, the… [read more]
The Europeans who colonized North America more than three centuries ago encountered fantastical creatures: flying squirrels, ruby–throated hummingbirds, the easily tamed beaver. Their literature of discovery – by turns comic, cruel, and adulatory – provides a revealing glimpse of the taxonomies they carried with them into their so–called New World.
Sharon Kirsch weaves early settler accounts, fables, children's stories, natural histories and 21st century science in a quirky narrative that probes our complicated relationship with the other creatures that share the planet.
Illustrated with twenty period drawings, and peppered with verbatim accounts by these early settlers, What Species of Creatures is a rich and satisfying stew of odd historical facts and figures. [less]
About Sharon Kirsch
Sharon Kirsch lives in Toronto. She is a freelance writer and editor. [read more]
Sharon Kirsch lives in Toronto. She is a freelance writer and editor. [less]
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