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Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins

Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins

by Claire Cock-Starkey
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/08/2016

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Can you remember seeing a tiger 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 sometimes feels 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 globalization, people were encountering new foods, animals, plants, peoples and cultures for the first time as overseas trade routes opened up. Compiled from the archives of the British Library, this new book reflects the wonderment and curiosity of these new experiences.
ISBN:
9780712356367
9780712356367
Category:
European history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-08-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
British Library, The
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
209.55x152.4x25.4mm
Weight:
0.59kg
Claire Cock-Starkey

Claire Cock-Starkey is an author who worked with Ben Schott on his hugely successful Miscellanies and Almanacs. She has worked for BBC Radio 4 and written many other miscellanies and fact-filled books on history, libraries, words, books and museums, including: Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins (British Library, 2016), The Book Lovers' Miscellany (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2017). She is happiest perched in the British Library reading rooms surrounded by a pile of obscure and fascinating books, researching her next book

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