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Product details
- ISBN 9780749398743
- Weight: 532g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 1997
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.
Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He has written four novels of historical fiction.
