The pope's rhinoceros

Autor*innen

• Lawrence Norfolk

Parameter

• 753 Seiten
• 27 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Britische Literatur
• Historische Romane
• Natur, Tiere
• Tiere

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In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat- her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Einband: Paperback