King Solomon's Ring
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Legend holds that King Solomon wore a magic ring that allowed him to speak with animals — Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize-winning ethologist and founding father of animal behaviour science, needed no such enchantment. King Solomon's Ring is a landmark work of popular science that chronicles Lorenz's intimate life alongside the remarkable creatures he studied: jackdaws, geese, fish, dogs, and a menagerie of wild companions who shared his home and transformed his understanding of the animal mind. Written with warmth, wit, and the eye of a born storyteller, it presents the foundational principles of ethology — the science of animal behaviour — through vivid, often humorous personal anecdotes that make complex biological insights feel immediate and alive. Beneath its charming surface, this classic work argues powerfully that animals possess rich inner lives, social bonds, and communicative capacities that parallel our own, anticipating decades of subsequent scientific debate. Lorenz's prose is lucid and inviting, rendering him as much a gifted writer as a rigorous scientist, and the book stands as a cornerstone of 20th-century natural history literature. First published in German in 1949 and translated into dozens of languages, it remains essential reading for anyone curious about the hidden world of animal instinct, loyalty, and intelligence — a world that, once seen through Lorenz's eyes, can never quite be unseen.
Author: Konrad Z. Lorenz
Format: Paperback
Genre: Natural history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Legend holds that King Solomon wore a magic ring that allowed him to speak with animals — Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize-winning ethologist and founding father of animal behaviour science, needed no such enchantment. King Solomon's Ring is a landmark work of popular science that chronicles Lorenz's intimate life alongside the remarkable creatures he studied: jackdaws, geese, fish, dogs, and a menagerie of wild companions who shared his home and transformed his understanding of the animal mind. Written with warmth, wit, and the eye of a born storyteller, it presents the foundational principles of ethology — the science of animal behaviour — through vivid, often humorous personal anecdotes that make complex biological insights feel immediate and alive. Beneath its charming surface, this classic work argues powerfully that animals possess rich inner lives, social bonds, and communicative capacities that parallel our own, anticipating decades of subsequent scientific debate. Lorenz's prose is lucid and inviting, rendering him as much a gifted writer as a rigorous scientist, and the book stands as a cornerstone of 20th-century natural history literature. First published in German in 1949 and translated into dozens of languages, it remains essential reading for anyone curious about the hidden world of animal instinct, loyalty, and intelligence — a world that, once seen through Lorenz's eyes, can never quite be unseen.