by Christopher Plumb
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. I’ve always wanted a tiger, but I’ve always not wanted a tiger. Tigers are beautiful animals, but do you really want an animal that will never fully be tame and could just kill you by accident? How many times does your cat scratch you? It’s also t...
It must have been fun to live in a time when people believed in dragons. Elephants, you see "waded into pools of water when they wanted to give birth; a male would stand by the pool to guard the mother from their mortal enemy, the dragon." How marvelous.Unfortunately, that seems like one of the only...
My thanks to I.B. Tauris & Co. and Net Galley for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This is a fascinating book. I’m one of those people who find the history of the good and great all very well but I’m more interested in what everybody else and society at large was up...