A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs

Peter J. Conradi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2019
Short Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78072-404-1 (ISBN)

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Tin Tin’s Snowy, Odysseus’s Argos, Darwin’s Polly, Mary Queen of Scots’s 22 lap-dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Flush… Behind every great man or woman is a dog. A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a rich compendium of the world’s most significant and beloved dogs. Embracing the intriguing and the provocative, the essential and the trivial, Peter J. Conradi forays into history, literature and personal anecdotes to unearth a treasure trove of canine characters. Discover the stories behind Karl Marx's and his daughter's Dogberry Club; the lapdogs who were secreted in first-class cabins on the Titanic and how they survived; Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Bobby who stayed by his master’s grave for 14 years; and the one undisputed fact about Shakespeare – his singular dislike for dogs. A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a wonderful and witty homage to man’s most faithful friend.

Peter J. Conradi is the author of many books, including Iris Murdoch: A Life, the critically lauded biography of Iris Murdoch, and more recently of Going Buddhist (Short Books) and At the Bright Hem of God: Radnorshire Pastoral.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 202 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
ISBN-10	1-78072-404-7 / 1780724047
ISBN-13	978-1-78072-404-1 / 9781780724041
Zustand	Neuware