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The Medici Giraffe - 9780316525657
Un libro in lingua di Marina Belozerskaya edito da Little Brown & Co, 2006
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Exotic animals have long entranced and inspired us. For centuries, they've served as diplomats and war machines, shaped the reigns of rulers, advanced knowledge, and captured the human imagination. How did such creatures come to make or break rulers and help shape the definition of what is means to be civilized?
The Medici Giraffe contemplates this question through a chain of stories beginning in ancient Alexandria and traveling through republican Rome, Renaissance Florence, Aztec Mexico, baroque Prague, Napoleonic France, robber baron America, and right up to the present day, when two pairs of giant pandas - alone, it seemed - were able to warm the frosty relations between superpowers.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Medici Giraffe
- Sottotitolo: And other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Marina Belozerskaya
- Editore: Little Brown & Co
- Collana: Little Brown & Co (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 21 Agosto '06
- Genere: NATURE
- Argomenti : Wild animals as pets History Wild animal collecting History Exotic animals History
- Pagine: 414
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 146 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0316525650
- EAN-13: 9780316525657