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

DeGraaff, Robert M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0892812613 ISBN 13 : 9780892812615

Editeur : Park Street Press, 1991

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Park Street Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0892812613
• ISBN 13: 9780892812615
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible