Being a Man : (Record no. 493210)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260615111051.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780753813782 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | Kenya National Library Service |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.914 TWI |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Twigger, Robert |
| Relator term | Author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Being a Man : |
| Remainder of title | in the lousy modern world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Robert Twigger. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 190 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 20 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Robert Twigger now turns his attention to other traditionally male pursuits and pastimes (some of which are fairly close to home, some of which are more extreme), and looks at the questions these raise about masculinity and the role of man in modern society. BEING A MAN isn¿t exactly a search for the lost attributes of primitive man - hunting, shooting, making fires, etc - but, hooked on a nostalgia for past writers such as Hemingway, the book features Twigger participating in, and writing on: the informal rules and thrill seeking of solo climbing, bullfighting in Spain, the ¿illicit pleasure of buying my first gun¿, and the rules of survival with a tribe of Naga headhunters - the sort of activities and pursuits often scorned in the modern, interiorised office-based world. He also looks at why men feel the urge to escape in this way, and why, even in mundane everyday life, modern man is trapped in an endless loop of having to prove himself a man. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Moder man |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Memoir. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Information Access | Acquisition, Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution Development | 06/15/2026 | BAI | 599.00 | 823.914 TWI | B230987 | 06/15/2026 | 06/15/2026 | Books |