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    612-822-4611

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Monumental Tales: The Fascinating Stories Behind the World's Pet Statues and Memorials

Monumental Tales: The Fascinating Stories Behind the World's Pet Statues and Memorials

Buckles, Jackie

Paperback

General ArchitecturePets: General

ISBN10: 0718895452
ISBN13: 9780718895457
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Nov 28 2019
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.41 Depth: 9.93
Language: English
A lavishly illustrated exploration of pet statues and memorials from around the world, and the often surprising and inspiring stories behind them.

Around the world there are thousands of pet statues and memorials with fascinating stories behind them. Some reveal insights into our social history, such as the little brown dog in Battersea that was a focus of suffragette riots. Others have wonderfully quirky origins, like the twenty-three cats of York: sculptures added to buildings designed by a cat-loving architect. Many more reveal tales of courage, loyalty, myth, and legend.

From Egyptian cat goddesses and the heroic dogs of war, to search-and-rescue canines on 9/11 and Tombili the Turkish moggy who became an Internet sensation, this book brings together a selection of the most surprising, amusing and illuminating stories, complete with dozens of full-colour photographs. Anyone with an appreciation of pets, the varied roles they play in our lives, and the ways in which our relationships with them have evolved over time, will find much of interest in this book.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to help fund the UK's first national memorial to service dogs.

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