The Butterfly Lions: The Pekingese in History, Legend and Art by Rumer Godden
The Butterfly Lions: The Pekingese in History, Legend and Art

Rumer Godden

The Butterfly Lions: The Pekingese in History, Legend and Art

Rumer Godden

192 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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Something of a eulogy of the Pekingese dog, and its origins and place in religion and Court life in China. The theme is developed further, and examines the introduction via the Opium Wars to Britan, and the evolution of the breed in the West, Ment...

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