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Language: English
Published by Park Street Press, 1991
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- Title
- The Book of the Toad: A Natural and Magical History of Toad-Human Relations
- Author
- DeGraaff, Robert M.
- Publisher
- Park Street Press
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0892812613
- ISBN 13
- 9780892812615
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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About the Author
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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