Mammoth

Chris Flynn

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9780702263941

The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007. By tracing how and when these fossils were unearthed, Mammoth leads us on a funny and fascinating journey from the Pleistocene epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, revealing how ideas about science and religion have shaped our world. With our planet on the brink of calamitous climate change, Mammoth scrutinises humanity's role in the destruction of the natural world while also offering a message of hope.

Table of contents

• Praise for Mammoth
• Author biography
• Title page
• Thomas Jefferson Letter
• Natural History Auction 2007
• One
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Epilogus hominum
• Epilogus mammut
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Imprint page