From Rhino To Unicorn
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Rhinoceros
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Author : Kelly Enright
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2008-06-24
Rhinoceros written by Kelly Enright and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with Nature categories.
The rhinoceros’s horn and massive leathery frame belie its docile and solitary nature, causing the animal to be consistently perceived by humans as a monster to be feared. Kelly Enright now deftly sifts fact from fiction in Rhinoceros. Enright chronicles the vexed interactions between humans and rhinos, from early sightings that mistook the rhinoceros for the mythical unicorn to the eighteenth-century display of the rhinoceros in Europe as a wonder of nature and its introduction to the American public in 1830. The rhinoceros has long been a prized hunting object as well, whether for its horn as a valuable ingredient in Asian medicine or as a coveted trophy by nineteenth-century big-game hunters such as Theodore Roosevelt, and the book explains how such practices have led to the rhino’s status as an endangered species. Enright also considers portrayals of the animal in film, literature, and art, all in the service of discovering whether the reputed savagery of the rhino is a reality or a legacy of its mythic past. A wide-ranging, highly illustrated study, Rhinoceros will be essential for scholars and animal lovers alike.
The Unicorn Tapestries At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
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Author : Adolph S. Cavallo
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 1998
The Unicorn Tapestries At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art written by Adolph S. Cavallo and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
Among the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is a set of tapestries depicting the hunt of the fabled unicorn. Each of the seven exquisite tapestries is reproduced in large colorplates and with a wealth of color details. Created in the Netherlands in 1495-1505, they contain supremely memorable images - from the vulnerable unicorn and the individualized faces of the hunters to the naturalistically depicted flora and fauna. The author also looks at the construction of the tapestries and the historical and cultural context in which they were woven.
The Rhino Keepers
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Author : Clive Walker
language : en
Publisher: Jacana Media
Release Date : 2012
The Rhino Keepers written by Clive Walker and has been published by Jacana Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
The conservation of the rhinos in southern Africa is described in this account of these fascinating animals, the reasons behind their historical decline, the myths that surround them, and the resurrection of the rhinoceros horn trade. Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as determined an enemy as the world's rhinos. But across the African continent, they are being slaughtered on a daily basis, and approximately 5,000 black rhinos and 21,000 white rhinos are all that prevent their extinction. This real account of the rhino wars is a harrowing story, underscoring the enormous challenges that lie ahead for conservation in a world where rhino horns sold by the gram raise double the price of gold and are more expensive than cocaine in the end-user Asian markets. Arguing that protecting Africa's rhinos is of utmost importance, it questions the management of natural heritage and implores readers to recognize their role as rhino keepers of the future.
Unicorns
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Author : William Dudley
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2008
Unicorns written by William Dudley and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Unicorns categories.
For thousands of years people from all parts of the world have been fascinated by unicorns-- and many have believed that these one-horned animals really existed. This book recounts different unicorn legends, the very real trade that existed for unicorn horns (alicorns), and examines what real animals might have inspired the unicorn stories.
The Very Short Entirely True History Of Unicorns
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Author : Sarah Laskow
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-08-13
The Very Short Entirely True History Of Unicorns written by Sarah Laskow and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
From cuddly pool floats to rainbow-colored toast toppings, unicorns--the darlings of Instagram--have never been more exciting or more popular. Are unicorns real? Their popularity and enduring role in human culture certainly is. How can you win a fight against a unicorn? Why do some unicorns have wings? Why are unicorns often pictured with rainbows? Get answers to these questions and more in this fun look at unicorns throughout history. This four-color, fully illustrated book provides everything you always wanted to know about the myths, science, and history that surround the unicorn, a creature that has grown even more popular in the twenty-first century. With its stylish design and fresh, captivating illustrations, The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns will appeal to readers--children and adults alike--who can't get enough of the world's most elusive animal.
The Mythic Chinese Unicorn
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Author : Jeannie Thomas Parker
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2018-01-29
The Mythic Chinese Unicorn written by Jeannie Thomas Parker and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-29 with Social Science categories.
This is the first book in the English language to explore the origin and significance of the mythic Chinese unicorn and its influence on later unicorn myths. It proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Chinese unicorn was not the qilin, but a one-horned female goat-like beast called the zhi (pronounced jhuhr). It also examines the real animals upon which the myth was based. Its most significant finding, however, is that the unicorn zhi was the ultimate symbol of justice under the law in ancient China. Making judicious use of all available evidence, historical, epigraphical, archaeological, art historical and scientific, this book explains how the myth of the unicorn began in China and then gradually spread to other parts of Asia and Europe.
The Last Unicorn
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Author : William deBuys
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-03-10
The Last Unicorn written by William deBuys and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Nature categories.
An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth. In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in fifty years. Rare then and rarer now, a live saola had never been glimpsed by a Westerner in the wild when Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in central Laos. Their team endured a punishing trek up and down white-water rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers who roamed the forest, stripping it of wildlife. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, The Last Unicorn chronicles deBuys's journey deep into one of the world's most remote places. It's a story rich with the joys and sorrows of an expedition into undiscovered country, pursuing a species as rare and elusive as the fabled unicorn. As is true with the quest for the unicorn, in the end the expedition becomes a search for something more: the essence of wildness in nature, evidence that the soul of a place can endure, and the transformative power of natural beauty.
A Biblical And Theological Dictionary
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Author : Richard Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
A Biblical And Theological Dictionary written by Richard Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with Bible categories.
A Biblical And Theological Dictionary
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Author : Richard Watson (Wesleyan Minister.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1831
A Biblical And Theological Dictionary written by Richard Watson (Wesleyan Minister.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1831 with categories.
The Tyranny Of The Banal
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Author : David Deane
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-06-21
The Tyranny Of The Banal written by David Deane and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-21 with Religion categories.
Catholic positions on contested moral issues are rejected by the majority in the secular West and are increasingly rejected by Catholics themselves. In this book, David Deane argues that there are two main reasons for this. First, the dominance of secular approaches deprives Catholic positions of their claim to coherence. Second, the Catholic positions, Deane shows, have lost contact with the theology on which they were originally based. In response, Deane undertakes a deconstruction of the dominant secular positions, and seeks to restore Catholic positions to their theological roots. The result of this is a moral theology reconnected with the Trinitarian understanding of God and God’s relationship with the world. Restored to its doctrinal foundations, the moral theology that Deane offers is more coherent, more beautiful, and more convincing than has been found in Catholic moral discourse for centuries.