Andy Warner
Autor de Brief Histories of Everyday Objects
Obras de Andy Warner
This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States (2019) 51 copias
Two Stories 1 copia
Home Brew 1 copia
When We Were Kids 1 copia
Irene No.1 1 copia
The Nib, 15: Future 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Be Gay, Do Comics: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from the Nib (2020) — Contributing editor — 125 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 11
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 167
- Popularidad
- #127,264
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 23
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 1
See also: Yummy by Victoria Grace Elliott; The Real Poop on Pigeons by Kevin McCloskey
Quotes/notes
In 1847, the Kennel Club was founded in London and dogs got weird. (14)
Humans are astonishingly good at hunting things....Almost every appearance of humans was followed by a mass extinction of large mammals. (26)
"I bet nobody expected Nazi zoologists!" (43)
"Hmm, causing ecological collapse with animals intended to remind us of home does seem like poor planning." (re: introducing rabbits to Australia, 69)
"Well, have you ever tried to get a Visigoth to eat an omelet?" (re: popularity of chickens in the Roman Empire; fall of the Roman empire, 117)
In the Han dynasty, mouse breeders created the "waltzing mouse," which stumbled around because of an inner-ear defect. (128)
Sparrows arrived in the Americas via deliberate introductions in the 1850s, often by various weirdos nostalgic for the sparrows of the Old World. (152)
...the ability to not annoy humans enough to provoke destruction or interest them enough to be domesticated has made sparrows the wild bird with the most widespread range on earth. (153)… (más)