The Book of the Toad: A Natural and Magical History of Toad-Human Relations - Brossura

Degraaff, Robert M.

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ISBN 10: 0892812613 ISBN 13: 9780892812615

Casa editrice: Park Street Pr, 1991

Riassunto

This comprehensive and entertaining compendium of toad lore surveys the history of toads as biological entity, literary and artistic subject, mythological subject, and threatened species. Here is a uniquely insightful and engaging look at how humans through the ages have responded to and been influenced by their amphibian neighbors.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Robert DeGraaff has been a professor of Victorian literature at St. Lawrence University for more than twenty years. He is also an accomplished limericist and the tiller of a 5,000-square-foot vegetable garden, in which he communes whenever possible with Bufo americanus, the American toad.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Park Street Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0892812613
• ISBN 13: 9780892812615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile