The Bear: History of a Fallen King by Michel Pastoureau

The Bear: History of a Fallen King

Michel Pastoureau with George Holoch (Translator)

343 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative slow-paced
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The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, lit...

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