Strange and wonderful : exotic flora and fauna in image and imagination /

Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. This text offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to...

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Main Author: Foster, Karen Polinger, 1950- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
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Online Access:Oxford scholarship online