Penguins, pineapples & pangolins :
Cock-Starkey, Claire
Penguins, pineapples & pangolins : first encounters with the exotic / Claire Cock-Starkey. - London : The British Library, 2016. - 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
In these modern times 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 just a few hundred years, adventurers were exploring the world during a period when most people rarely travelled further than their nearest market town. Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins captures the wonderment these intrepid explorers felt as they struggled to record their new experiences. The eyewitness accounts in this collection reveal the reactions and thoughts of Europeans as they visited new places, tasted new foods and encountered strange animals, peoples and plants for the very first time.-- Back cover.
9780712356367 (hardback) : £10.00
GBB640857 bnb
017776968 Uk
Natural history--History.
Exotic plants--Public opinion--History.
Exotic animals--Public opinion--History.
508
Penguins, pineapples & pangolins : first encounters with the exotic / Claire Cock-Starkey. - London : The British Library, 2016. - 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
In these modern times 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 just a few hundred years, adventurers were exploring the world during a period when most people rarely travelled further than their nearest market town. Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins captures the wonderment these intrepid explorers felt as they struggled to record their new experiences. The eyewitness accounts in this collection reveal the reactions and thoughts of Europeans as they visited new places, tasted new foods and encountered strange animals, peoples and plants for the very first time.-- Back cover.
9780712356367 (hardback) : £10.00
GBB640857 bnb
017776968 Uk
Natural history--History.
Exotic plants--Public opinion--History.
Exotic animals--Public opinion--History.
508