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

Degraaff, Robert

 
9780718828417: The Book of the Toad: A Natural and Magical History of Toad-human Relations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0718828410 ISBN 13: 9780718828417
Verlag: Lutterworth Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

This comprehensive and entertaining compendium of toad lore surveys the history of the toad as biological entity, literary and artistic subject, mythological symbol, and threatened species. It brings to light a number of unexpected details regardingthe life of the toad, ranging from its role as insect eater in gardens and pharmaceutical ingredient in shamanic hallucinogens, to its time honoured place in witchcraft and its apotheosis in stars as the constellation Bufo. Robert DeGraaff's offbeathistory is exhaustively researched, scientifically precise, graced with high colour art reproductions and illustrations, and written with uncommon wit and humour. Far more than a volume for bufophiles, this is a uniquely insightful and engaging lookat how humans through the ages have responded to and have been influenced by their amphibian neighbours.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Lutterworth Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0718828410
ISBN 13 
9780718828417
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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