Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization by Andrew Lawler

Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization

Andrew Lawler

336 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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Veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a "fascinating and delightful...globetrotting tour" (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization--the chicken. In a masterful combination of historical sle...

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