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Mammoth / Chris Flynn.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.F66 M36 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flynn, Chris, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antiquities--Fiction.
- Antiquities.
- Animal remains (Archaeology)--Fiction.
- Animal remains (Archaeology).
- Antique auctions--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Antique auctions.
- Fossils--Fiction.
- Fossils.
- Religion and science--Fiction.
- Religion and science.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Fiction.
- Nature.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Mammoths.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Mammoths--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction -- Adult fiction -- Print.
- Historical fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press (UQP), 2020.
- Summary:
- "Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a prehistoric penguin, the severed hand of an Egyptian mummy and the narrator himself came to be on sale at a 2007 natural history auction in Manhattan. Ranging from the Pleistocene Epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, including detours to Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany, Mammoth illuminates a period of history when ideas about science and religion underwent significant change. By tracing how and when the fossils were unearthed, Mammoth traverses time and place to reveal humanity's role in the inexorable destruction of the natural world."--Publisher description.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780702262746
- 0702262749
- OCLC:
- 1141451294
- Publisher Number:
- 99985421722
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