Verlyn Klinkenborg

Timothy; Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 192 Seiten
ISBN 0679737537
EAN 9780679737537
Veröffentlicht Januar 2007
Verlag/Hersteller Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal's own sensibility. But Verlyn Klinkenborg has done just that in Timothy: an insightful and utterly engaging story of the world's most famous tortoise, whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate and naturalist Gilbert White. For thirteen years, Timothy lived in White's garden. Here Klinkenborg gives the tortoise an unforgettable voice and keen powers of observation on both human and natural affairs. Wry and wise, unexpectedly moving and enchanting at every-careful-turn, Timothy surprises and delights.

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