Mammoth / Chris Flynn.
Publication details: St Lucia, Queensland : UQP, 2020.Description: 256 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780702262746 (paperback)
- Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts
- Humorous stories
- Historical fiction
- Antique auctions
- Antiquities
- Fossils
- Mammoths
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Religion and science
- Animal remains (Archaeology)
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Antique auctions -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Antique auctions -- New York (State) -- Manhattan -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Auctions -- Fiction
- Antiquities -- Fiction
- Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Fiction
- Fossils -- Fiction
- Religion and science -- Fiction
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction
- Mammoths -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- AUS historical fiction
- Australian
- Humorous fiction -- Adult fiction -- Print
- Historical fiction
- Australian fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Australian fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Historical fiction
- Humorous fiction -- Adult fiction -- Print
- Humorous fiction -- Adult fiction -- Print
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Australian fiction -- 21st century.
- Humorous fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- A823.4 23
- PR9619.4.F66 M36 2020
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | FLY | Available | 062128 |
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.
