Sheep
By Philip Armstrong
Reaktion
The Egyptians worshipped them, the Romans dressed them in
fitted coats, early Christians made the shepherd synonymous with
their divine saviour. In Sheep, Philip Armstrong traces the natural
and cultural history of both the wild and domestic species of Ovis:
from the Old World mouflon to the corkscrew-horned flocks of the
Egyptians, to the ‘Trojan sheep’ of Homer’s Odyssey, to the vast
migratory mobs of Spanish merinos – all the way to Dolly the
cloned ewe and the sheep-human hybrids of Haruki Murakami.
Above all else, Sheep demonstrates that sometimes the most
mundane animals turn out to be the most surprising.
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NB: Philip Armstrong