{"product_id":"the-popes-rhinoceros-lawrence-norfolk-9780802139887","title":"The Pope's Rhinoceros","description":"The Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora de Ajuda had sailed fourteen thousand miles from the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. her mission: to bribe the \"pleasure-loving Pope\" into favoring expansionist Portugal over her rival Spain with the most exotic and least likely of gifts--a living rhinoceros. Moving from the herring colonies of the Baltic Sea to the West African rain forest, with a cast of characters including an order of reculsive monks and Rome's corrupt cardinals, courtesans, ambassadors, and nobles, The Pope's Rhinoceros is at once a fantastic adventure tale and a portrait of an age rushing headlong to its crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence Norfolk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802139884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802139887\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.56w x 1.21d","brand":"Lawrence Norfolk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947186782463,"sku":"9780802139887","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_212935a1-b857-47ed-938c-b3c76e845955.jpg?v=1681517235","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-popes-rhinoceros-lawrence-norfolk-9780802139887","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}