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Penguins, pineapples & pangolins : first encounters with the exotic / Claire Cock-Starkey.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Cock-Starkey, Claire, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--History.
- Natural history.
- History.
- Exotic plants--Public opinion--History.
- Exotic plants.
- Exotic animals--Public opinion--History.
- Exotic animals.
- Public opinion.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Penguins, pineapples and pangolins
- Place of Publication:
- London : The British Library, 2016.
- Summary:
- Can you remember seeing a giraffe for the first time? Tasting a Pineapple? Touching a cactus? 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 hi tins 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Animals & Birds
- Giraffe 11
- Macaw 12
- Crocodile & alligator 13
- Penguin 18
- Zebra 21
- Kangaroo 22
- Pelican 26
- Elk & moose 27
- Cuttlefish 28
- Rattlesnake 29
- Chameleon go Walrus 31
- Lion 33
- Tiger & leopard 35
- A 'counterfeit' lamb 38
- Flamingo 39
- Elephant 40
- Dolphin 47
- Shark 48
- Polar hear 53
- Monkeys 57
- Orang-Utan 61
- Snake 63
- Monitor lizard or goanna 64
- Duck-billed platypus 65
- Dugong & manatee 67
- Pangolin 69
- Sloth 71
- Rhinoceros 73
- Bat 73
- Leaves which turn into insects 76
- Stick insect 77
- Gorilla 77
- Hippopotamus 78
- Loris 79
- Flying fish 80
- Terrifying fish 81
- Giant tortoise 83
- Turtle 83
- Panda 85
- Narwhal 86
- Turaco 88
- Ostrich, cassowary & rhea 89
- Dodo 91
- Cat 93
- Food, Fruit & Plants 95
- Encounters with food -world cuisine 95
- Pineapple 100
- Sago 103
- Mango 104
- Prickly pear 107
- Coconut 109
- Bamboo 111
- Lyehee 112
- Oranges 113
- Tea 114
- Bananas & plantains 116
- Avocado 120
- Watermelon 122
- Granadilla 122
- Guava 123
- Bread fruit 124
- Durian 125
- Cocoa 126
- Papaya 127
- Vanilla 128
- Sugar 130
- Cashew nut 131
- Nutmeg, mace, clove and cinnamon 132
- Mangosteen 135
- Coffee 136
- People, Places & Customs 141
- Australia - aborigines 141
- Pacific & Asia - chewing betel nut 144
- Madagascar - the people 147
- India - attitude towards animals 148
- North America - Native American people 148
- Australia - the boomerang 150
- India - modes of dress 152
- Papua New Guinea - first impressions 153
- The sad story of an English sailor 154
- India - smoking tobacco 156
- The Philippines - the people 157
- Japan - diving for fish 157
- Tahiti - the people 158
- China - an agreeable prospect 160
- India - the Dowers 160
- Japan - punishments 162
- North Africa - affable Arabs 162
- Sierra Leone - land of abundance 163
- Japan - the people 164
- The Arctic - swarming profusion of life 165
- Panama - impenetrable jungle 167
- Russia - the Tatars 168
- India - acrobats 169
- Japan - Osaka 170
- Mongolia - dwellings 170
- Jamaica - the intolerable heat 172
- Ceylon - the people 172
- The Pacific Islands-tattoos 174
- China - a tall story 175
- Cape of Good Hope - the people 176
- China - abundant exports 177
- Mongolia - divination 177
- Bangladesh - the people 178
- Java - teeth blackening 179
- Easter Islands - mysterious monoliths 180
- Bangladesh - Chittagong 183
- The strange tale of 'Astrachan fruit' 184
- Syria - carrier pigeons 186
- India & Bangladesh - opium-eaters 186.
- ISBN:
- 9780712356367
- 0712356363
- OCLC:
- 948261447
- Publisher Number:
- 99967261550
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