Imperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies. It examines the ways in which hunters, writers, conservationists, members of animal protection societies, scientists, doctors, government officials and others contested Russia's "Wolf Problem" and the particular threat posed by...
I Just Freaking Love Giraffes OK Journal Notebook - Sketchbook
by Rengaw Creations
First Published in 1967. This is final volume in a set of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summ...
Elephants (100 Things You Should Know About... S.)
by Camilla De La Bedoyere
Discover how elephants survive, the lands they inhabit and the effect humans have on their existance. Exactly 100 facts accompanied by detailed photographs and beautiful artwork will challenge children, acting as an incentive as they make their way through the book.
The Repulsive Naked Mole Rat (Nature's Freak Show: Ugly Beasts)
by Janey Levy