Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index.
Contents
Sheepishness -- How sheep became -- Ancient yarns -- A sheep-shaped world -- Little lamb, who made thee? -- Sheepliness.
Summary
"Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both the wild and domestic species of Ovis, from the Old World mouflon to the cannibal sheep of Thomas More's Utopia, to Dolly the cloned ewe and the sheep-human hybrids of Haruki Murakami."--Page 4 of cover.