Dürer and the Rhinoceros

Chapbook published in the Migration Stories Chapbook Series. A creative inquiry into the trade in animals from far-flung places in the early modern period. Centrally, a rhinoceros brought from India to the royal bestiary in Lisbon, Portugal becomes the subject of a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer. The chapbook traces the lives of the rhinoceros, two cheetahs, an opossum, and a walrus while considering the life and work of Dürer, marine maps, and the networks of trade and power in the period.