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The Pope’s Rhinoceros
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In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope’s Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk’s brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.532 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 768 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 1997-2-3 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0749398744 |
| About The Author | Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He has written four novels of historical fiction. |
Bawdy baroque-punk prose of marvellous fluency, overlaid with a gloss of heavy-weight erudition… an astonishing achievement, little short of a masterpiece |
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| Other text | A gargantuan, dazzling fable by Britain's brightest young writer |
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