Desmond Morris

The Human Zoo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 545237
• 1994.
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 124g
• ISBN-13: 9780099482116
• ISBN-10: 0099482118
• Artikelnr.: 09570051

Autorenporträt

Desmond Morris was born in 1928. Educated at Birmingham and Oxford universities, he became the Curator of Mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years. In 1967 he published The Naked Ape which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and has changed the way we view our own species forever. An accomplished artist, tv presenter, film maker and writer, Desmond Morris's books have been published in over thirty-six countries.

Rezensionen

Compelling and absorbing...Morris is concerned with the tension between our biology and our culture, as it is expressed in power, sex, status and war games New York Times