Sheep\nby Philip Armstrong\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Philip Armstrong\nTitle: Sheep\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Wildlife: mammals: general interest\nPublisher: Reaktion Books\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781780235936\nISBN-10: 1780235933\nRRP: \u00A313.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe Egyptians worshipped them, the Romans dressed them in fitted coats, the Christians made the shepherd synonymous with their divine saviour. In Sheep, Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both the wild and domestic species of Ovis: from the Old World mouflon to the corkscrew-horned flocks of the Egyptians, to the 'Trojan sheep' of Homer's Odyssey, to th.