The Unicorn has been used for numerous - and on first appearances irreconcilable - purposes through the ages: as a religious symbol, a symbol of strength, of fertility and of chastity.
Lise Gotfredsen has written a wide-ranging cultural history of the Unicorn using pictorial art as the scarlet thread that draws together her work on this myth that has travelled so far. This illustrated book covers a subject that is rarely examined but that holds deep resonance for many diverse cultures.
