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The natural history of unicorns

Examines the history of the belief in the existence of unicorns, and explores traces of the creature's character in existing species throughout the natural world; and also discusses the symbolism of the unicorn in religion and mythology
Print Book, English, 2010, ©2009
1st Harper Perennial ed View all formats and editions
Harper Perennial, New York, 2010, ©2009
xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780060874155, 0060874155
456179719
A one-horned ass
Where unicorns roam
The Judaeo-Christian unicorn
The iconic unicorn
Beneficent unicorns
Hunting the khutu
A great way off!
In darkest Africa
The scientist's unicorn
Ancestral unicorns
Originally published: London : Granta Books, 2009