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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1. Verfasser: Foster, Karen Polinger 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung: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 explore the root of this phenomenon in art
Beschreibung:Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource Illustrationen
ISBN:9780190672560
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190672539.001.0001

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