The rhinoceros and the megatherium : an essay in natural history / Juan Pimentel ; translated by Pet...
The rhinoceros and the megatherium : an essay in natural history / Juan Pimentel ; translated by Pet...
The rhinoceros and the megatherium : an essay in natural history / Juan Pimentel ; translated by Peter Mason.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/2798
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English
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Physical content
356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue: Analogy and essay -- Part one. The armoured pachyderm: Itinerary -- Words -- Print -- Part two. A strange cadaver: Chimera -- Bones -- Fossil -- Epilogue: Circular lives.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon--the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. How did Europeans three centuries apar...
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The rhinoceros and the megatherium : an essay in natural history / Juan Pimentel ; translated by Peter Mason.
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"First published as El Rinoceronte y el Megaterio: un ensayo de morfologia historica by Abada Editores, S.L., copyright (c) 2010"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation Of
Translation of: Pimentel, Juan. Rinoceronte y el megaterio. Madrid : Abada Editores, ©2010 9788496775671 (OCoLC)777266243
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G 2017/2798
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74VKVaQJP66d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQJP66d
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ISBN
9780674737129
DDC
599.668
MMS ID
991024104313302626
