The Extinction Club. [Major; Truth; The phone call; My story; Emperor; Library; ISBN envy; Business; Dirt; Forgetting Milu; Blue Peter; Chinese Mirror; Selling youself; Sold; Klaudia; Blag; Blockages; Egypt; Basque Country; Espiritu Santo; etc]
by Twigger, Robert, 1964-
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New York : William Morrow, 2001., 2001. Fine. 1st US edition, 1st printing ; 222 pp. ; illustrated ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0688175392 (alk. paper); 9780688175399 (alk. paper) LCCN: 2001-57904 ; LC: PR6120.W54; Dewey: 823/.914 ; OCLC: 48517155 ; remainder mark at bottom ; white and gold cloth with meta llic gold lettering in color pictorial dustjacket ; "For one thousand years, the Milu, an exotic species of deer with the neck of a camel, the horns of a stag, the feet of a cow, and the tail of a donkey, existed only in the Chinese emperor's private park in Beijing. But in the second half of the nineteenth century a Basque missionary, Père David, became the first Westerner ever to see a Milu. Transfixed by the strange beast, he risked his life to obtain a specimen, then embalmed it and sent it to Paris in a diplomatic bag..." ; historical fiction account with tangential philosophical asides ; interesting ; FINE/FINE
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- Joseph Valles - Books (US)
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- The Extinction Club. [Major; Truth; The phone call; My story; Emperor; Library; ISBN envy; Business; Dirt; Forgetting Milu; Blue Peter; Chinese Mirror; Selling youself; Sold; Klaudia; Blag; Blockages; Egypt; Basque Country; Espiritu Santo; etc]
- Author
- Twigger, Robert, 1964-
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
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- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York : William Morrow, 2001.
- Date Published
- 2001
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- england britain china experimental fiction milu chinese emperor beijing basque missionaries bedfordshire woburn abbey texas
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- Catalog 59 - Fiction;
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