| #2581894 in Books | Reaktion Books | 2013-06-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x.60 x5.38l,.78 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Monkey around and enjoy the read.|By lyndonbrecht|This is an odd book, but excellently written and the photos are outstanding. Morris explores natural histories, monkeys in legends and religion (for example, Hanuman), monkeys as servants for the disabled (Morris uses the word "slave"), and more. The monkey as a cultural figure is well-covered. The organ grinder's monkey, monkey||
“A strength of Desmond Morris’s Monkey is his unsettling portrayal of how thoroughly our own primate species is willing to exploit its near relatives.”|
Monkeys populate our culture, from the adorable hijinks of Curious George and the loyal friendship between Aladdin and Abu to the menacing gait of the winged ones in The Wizard of Oz. We visit them in zoos and even sometimes keep them as pets à la Catherine de Medici and Michael Jackson. As renowned zoologist Desmond Morris shows, it is not surprising that we are so attracted to them. While we sometimes view monkeys as trivial or comic, their mischievo...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Monkey (Animal) | Desmond Morris. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
