Free Download Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSVN6LXX | 2024 | 12 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Kathryn Hughes
Narrator: Jane McDowell
Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era. ‘He invented a whole cat world’ declared H. G. Wells of Louis Wain, the Edwardian artist whose anthropomorphic kittens made him a household name. His drawings were irresistible but Catland was more than the creation of one eccentric imagination. It was an attitude – a way of being in society while discreetly refusing to follow its rules. As cat capitalism boomed in the spectacular Edwardian age, prized animals changed hands for hundreds of pounds and a new industry sprung up to cater for their every need.
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