Dr. Paul Koudounaris
Dr. Paul Koudounaris has a PhD in art history from UCLA and an international speaking career, and he is one of the world’s most popular historians of the eccentric, ephemeral, and macabre. A beloved fixture in the cat appreciation community, he is annually a speaker at the world’s largest cat convention, CatCon, with more than 20,000 attendees. Vice, LA Weekly, Brooklyn Paper, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal have all covered Dr. Koudounaris’s cat-related scholarship and photography.
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A Cat’s Tale
- By: Dr. Paul Koudounaris
- Narrator: Heather Pasternak
- Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 10, 2020
- Language: English
The first comprehensive history of felines–from the laps of pagan gods to present-day status as meme stars–as revealed by a very learned tabby with a knack for hunting down facts
Since the dawn of civilization, felines have prowled... Read more
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