The Book of the Toad: A Natural and Magical History of Toad-Human Relations - Softcover

DeGraaff, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892812613 ISBN 13: 9780892812615

Verlag: Park Street Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

This comprehensive and entertaining compendium of toad lore surveys the history of toads as biological entity, literary and artistic subject, mythological subject, and threatened species. Here is a uniquely insightful and engaging look at how humans through the ages have responded to and been influenced by their amphibian neighbors.

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Robert DeGraaff has been a professor of Victorian literature at St. Lawrence University for more than twenty years. He is also an accomplished limericist and the tiller of a 5,000-square-foot vegetable garden, in which he communes whenever possible with Bufo americanus, the American toad.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Park Street Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0892812613
• ISBN 13: 9780892812615
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar