Author: George Kenneth WhiteheadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Wild Goats of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: George Kenneth WhiteheadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Goat
Author: Joy HinsonPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233973
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
From “Three Billy Goats Gruff” to The Men Who Stare at Goats, this inimitable ruminant has long played a role in our literature and popular culture. And yet, our relationship with the “poor man’s cow” is oddly ambivalent. In the beautifully illustrated Goat, Joy Hinson explores the reason behind this unease while presenting readers with the animal’s fascinating natural history and its effect on myth, medicine, and culture. Hinson traces the history of goats from their evolution millions of years ago through their domestication and role in the modern world. She delves into our interaction with endangered wild goat species and the familiar farmyard goat, and she reveals the harm done by humans in indiscriminately importing tamed goats, leading to huge feral populations in Australia and on the Galapagos Islands. Hinson also considers the place of goat products in culinary and medical traditions, from the pouring of goat urine into the ear as a cure for neck pain to the belief that a goat’s bezoar stone can be used as an antidote for poison. From Goat Festivals in the United States to the Christmas Goat in Sweden, Goat takes readers on an exciting ride through this frequently neglected animal’s history, life, and role in today’s world.
The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: John Guille MillaisPublisher:
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Journal - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson
Author: Great BritainThe Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland; with Prefaces Biographical and Critical, Etc
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: John DebrettPublisher:
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Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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