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The Natural History Of Unicorns (2009)

by Chris Lavers(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1847080626 (ISBN13: 9781847080622)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Granta Books

review 1: Lavers' nonfiction book traces the mention of one-horned creatures through ancient literature, speculating on possible animals which might have given rise to the myth, but not concluding any one animal caused the myth. He traces the myth through 2000 years of history, showing how one author's translation of another added new elements into the unicorn as we imagine it. Informative, scholarly, well-written.
review 2: Pretty interesting stuff. I thought it was a bit too meandering at first, but I actually really enjoyed it by the end. It all started because we went to the Cloisters and saw all of the amazing Unicorn tapestries...and this book had some totally fascinating analyses of those very tapestries. It misses out on 5 stars because of cheap shots taken in va... morerious irrelevant places aimed at free enterprise, Western civilization in general, and religion. Academic reads are not the place to vent personal frustrations. less

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