Sheep

by Philip Armstrong

The ancient Egyptians worshipped them, the Romans dressed them in fitted coats, and the Christians associated them with their divine savior. In Sheep, Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both wild and domestic species of ovis, from the Old World mouflon to the corkscrew-horned flocks of the Egyptians, from the Trojan sheep of Homer's Odyssey to the cannibal sheep of Thomas More's Utopia, from the vast migratory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780235933
• ISBN13: 9781780235936
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.4"