Penguins, Pineapples & Pangolins: First Encounters With the Exotic - Couverture rigide

Cock-Starkey, Claire

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0712356363 ISBN 13 : 9780712356367

Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 2016

Synopsis

A Quite Interesting Book of the Year 2016 Can you remember seeing a giraffe for the first time? Tasting a pineapple? Touching a cactus? Probably not, because in these modern times everyone is very knowing - knowledge is at our fingertips and it can sometimes feel as if there is nothing new to discover. The awe and excitement from that moment has been lost because these objects and experiences have become ordinary to us.But if we travel back in time a few hundred years, before the age of globalisation, people were encountering new foods, animals, plants, peoples and cultures for the first time as overseas trade routes opened up. This new book reflects the wonderment and curiosity of these new experiences. Based on the historical collections of the British Library, it uses extracts from a wide variety of sources to reveal the reactions and thoughts of Europeans as they visited new places, tasted new foods and encountered strange animals, peoples and plants for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Claire Cock-Starkey was series editor for all six editions of Schott's Almanac. Her previous books include The Georgian Art of Gambling (2013) and How to Skin a Lion (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The British Library Publishing Division
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712356363
• ISBN 13: 9780712356367
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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