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Zebra (Paperback)
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Zebra (Paperback)
Series: Animal
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List price R432
Loot Price R393
Discovery Miles 3 930
You Save R39 (9%)
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Common and exotic, glamorous and ferocious, sociable and sullen:
zebras mean many things to many people. The extraordinary beauty of
their striped coats makes them one of the world's most recognizable
animals. They have been immortalized in paint by artists including
George Stubbs and Lucian Freud, and zebra-print designs permeate
contemporary society - on beanbags and bikinis, car seats and
pencil cases. Zebras even have a road crossing named after them.
But the natural and cultural history of the zebra remains a mystery
to most. Few know that there are three species of zebra, or that
one of these is currently endangered, or that the quagga, an animal
that once roamed southern Africa in large numbers before dying out
in the 1880s, is among the zebra's many subspecies. Zebra is a
comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the natural and cultural
history of this popular animal. Using a wide range of sources and
stories, it shows how the zebra's history engages and intersects
with diverse topics, including eighteenth-century humour,
imperialism and camouflage technologies. Including more than a
hundred illustrations, many previously unpublished, it offers a new
way of thinking about this much-loved but frequently misunderstood
animal.
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