Title: The Book of the Toad: A Natural and Magical History of Toad-Human Relations
Publisher: Park Street Press
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0892812613
ISBN 13: 9780892812615
Binding: paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 32 ounces

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This comprehensive and entertaining compendium of toad lore surveys the history of toads as biological entity, literary and artistic subject, mythological subject, and threatened species. Here is a uniquely insightful and engaging look at how humans through the ages have responded to and been influenced by their amphibian neighbors.

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Robert DeGraaff has been a professor of Victorian literature at St. Lawrence University for more than twenty years. He is also an accomplished limericist and the tiller of a 5,000-square-foot vegetable garden, in which he communes whenever possible with Bufo americanus, the American toad.

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