The golden-bristled boar : last ferocious beast of the forest

The golden-bristled boar : last ferocious beast of the forest / Jeffrey Greene.

The wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth. But as Jeffrey Greene learned, these creatures are very real, living by night and, despite shrinking habitats and hordes of hunters, thriving on six continents. Greene purchased an eighteenth-century presbytery in a region of ponds and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greene, Jeffrey, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement.
Subjects:
Wild boar hunting > History.
Wild boar hunting > Southern States > History.
Wild boar > Mythology.
Wild boar in art.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
NATURE > General.
Wild boar hunting
Wild boar in art
Wild boar > Mythology
Southern States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • La compagnie
  • The gift
  • Field dressing
  • The beast of our emotions
  • Boars in the evolutionary parade
  • Woodsmen and boars
  • The noble domain
  • Nights in the forest
  • Myths and monsters
  • Travels : Tuscany, Tyrrhenian islands, and boars
  • The divine beast
  • Beautiful monsters back home
  • Fête du sanglier
  • Julie
  • Recipes.

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