Naming Nature: A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities for Word Lovers Brand / Almalfi social and political ideas in

social and political ideas in times of enormous change

Size: 28cm long

drawings and sculpture in Britain

featuring an interactive guessing game and search-and-find

kind words

Naming Nature: A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities for Word Lovers Brand / Almalfi social and political ideas inFrom butterflies and hummingbirds to narwhal and leopards, Naming Nature celebrates our wondrous natural world by exploring the language we use to describe it. Take elephants, for instance. African languages often focus on the power of the animal; Tswana and Tsonga refer to the unstoppable one and Zulu one crashing through. In ancient European languages however, elephants were seen as commodities. When Homer and Hesiod wrote about elephas in the