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    Great beasts and American exceptionalism: the world through the eyes of a mammoth

    In an ambitious, hilarious, clever beast of a novel, Chris Flynn excavates the strange fascination powerful men have for big pets Read more about Guardian Australia’s Unmissables series
    by Paul Daley May 15, 2020 5 minutes
    Australian author Chris Flynn, whose book Mammoth is out May 2020 through UQP. Photograph: Georgia Butterfield

    A story of man’s self-destructive impulse to conquer nature and about American exceptionalism, with detours through Napoleonic France and the end of the Irish rebellion in 1801 … narrated by a 13,000-year-old fossilised mammoth?

    My doubts were as heavy as those ancient bones of Mammut americanum, going by the name “Mammut”, on the eve of his auction in New York in 2007, along with the remains of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, “T. bat”, a prehistoric penguin, “Paleo”, a pterodactyl, “Peterodactyl antiquus”, and the hand of an Egyptian mummy belonging to Pharaoh Hatshepsut, “Hattie”.

    That’s the opening cast and improbable set-up of Chris Flynn’s , drawn from an event where . It’s where Mammut got me hooked as he recounted the story of the end of the ice age when the megafauna roamed a great cold

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