Rhinoceros

by Kelly Enright

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861893744
• ISBN13: 9781861893741
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.5"