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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Mammoth does what great literature should. It causes readers to pause and consider important issues in ways they had not previously. I was aware of the controversy surrounding the auctioning of various fossil artefacts in the US, particularly T. bataar specimens illegally extracted from Mongolia, having read journalist Paige Williams’ fascinating book The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, betrayal and the quest for earth’s ultimate trophy. But Chris Flynn’s novel’s scope and ambition is much broader, and his highly original approach to considering the lessons of history, far more impactful. The bulk of the narrative is delivered from the sage perspective of Mammut, an extinct woolly mammoth. One instinctively feels for the plight of this character, both his and his species’ original demise and his more recent fossilized consciousness. Continue reading >> https://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/2020/05/mammoth-by-chris-flynn-fresh-perspe... aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a prehistoric penguin, the severed hand of an Egyptian mummy and the narrator himself came to be on sale at a 2007 natural history auction in Manhattan. Ranging from the Pleistocene Epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, including detours to Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany, Mammoth illuminates a period of history when ideas about science and religion underwent significant change. By tracing how and when the fossils were unearthed, Mammoth traverses time and place to reveal humanity's role in the inexorable destruction of the natural world. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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What a charming read! Awaiting sale at an auction of antiquities, a 13,000-year-old mammoth skeleton tells the story of his life to his motley crew of companions: a haughty Bavarian pterodactyl, a ghetto tyrannosar, a super-laidback archaic penguin, and a vengeful Ancient Egyptian Queen. It is a story of the old times, of the impact of first humans to arrive in the paradisal Americas many thousands of years ago, as well as a unique vantage point on human history, as the mammoth witnesses the arguable progress of modern humanity.
Sweet, funny, and captivating, Mammoth made me really rather happy. It is also a book in the eco-warrior vein, with an appeal to those of us wondering when - or if - humankind will realise we are part of something larger than ourselves. ( )