[Read download] The Extinction Club: A Tale of Deer, Lost Books, and a Rather Fine Canary Yellow Sweater
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| #6777595 in Books | Robert Twigger | 2003-07-08 | 2003-07-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.54 x5.31l,.39 | File Name: 0060535962 | 240 pages | The Extinction Club A Tale of Deer Lost Books and a Rather Fine Canary Yellow Sweater
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The extinction club|By Clare O'Beara|Pere David's Deer, otherwise known as the Milu, which went extinct in its native China and was restored by a captive herd in Britain, is the putative topic. It only occupies a few pages.
There's a lot of rambling, comments by the author about himself and side tracks. Some of the side tracks are well explored and worth a trip. Som|About the Author|Robert Twigger, the author of Angry White Pyjamas and Big Snake, was born in 1964 and educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Poetry Prize. In 1991 he went to Japan, studied traditional martial arts, and completed the c
For one thousand years, the Milu -- an exotic species of deer with the neck of a camel, horns of a stag, feet of a cow, and tail of a donkey -- existed only in the Chinese emperor’s private park in Beijing. But in the nineteenth century, a Basque missionary risked his life to obtain a specimen, then embalmed it and sent it to Paris.
The preserved remains caused quite a stir, and soon every major nation in Europe possessed a Milu. But most died quickly, a...
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