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The Hedgehog's Dilemma: A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal

✍ Scribed by Warwick, Hugh

Book ID: 108600547
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 3 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781608192366

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✦ Synopsis

A hilarious, baffling, and entertaining celebration of the world's favorite rodent, the hedgehog. In The Hedgehog's Dilemma, Warwick gets to the bottom of the sudden boom in hedgehog popularity and examines the relationship between the hedgehog and man, covering both the mammal's natural and un-natural evolution, from despised vermin to much-beloved beast. A historical and cultural exploration of the hedgehog, this is an engaging, informative, and charming look at the fascinating world of hedgehogs. For more than twenty years, Hugh Warwick has tracked hedgehogs across the globe in the slim hopes of coming across the hedgehog's tiny, but unmistakable, pawprints. Warwick isn't alone in his endeavors. In England and Wales, the Environment Agency, Great Britain's leading environmental group, recently selected the hedgehog as its new mascot; while in America, which lacks a native hedgehog species, fanciers flock to the biannual Mile High Hedgehog Show to celebrate en masse the...

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