The Naked Woman - Vendido!

Desmond Morris
Random House UK, September 2004
Translation – Jonathan Cape

Rights sold:
***Brasil: Editora Globo***
US: Thomas Dunne
French: Clamann-Levy
Dutch: Unieboek
Norwegian: Damm
Italian: Mondadori
Korean: Human & Books
Spanish: Planeta
Greek: Dioptra
Polish: Albatros
German: Heyne
Czech: MLM
Japan: Shogakukan

Book description:
This book takes the reader on a guided tour of the female body, explaining its many unusual features.

The human female has undergone amazing changes during the course of her evolution – far more than the human male. She has left behind many of the feminine qualities of other primates and, in the shape of modern woman, has become a unique being of an extraordinary kind.

This is a zoologist’s portrait of the human female, presenting a new way of looking at one of the most fascinating subjects in the world. It is not a medical text, or a psychologist’s laboratory analysis, but a natural history of women, examining them in the real world, in their natural environment, as biologically active, social human beings.

About the author:
Desmond Morris was born in Wiltshire in 1929. After gaining a degree in zoology from Birmingham University, he obtained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He became curator of mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years. He was already the author of some fifty scientific papers and seven books before completing The Naked Ape in 1967, which was to sell over 20 million copies throughout the world and be translated into almost every known language. Desmond Morris has made many television programmes and films on human and animal behaviour, his friendly and accessible approach making him popular with both adults and children, and he is now one of the best-known presenters of natural history programmes. He is also an accomplished artist.