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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
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Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-24 - Publisher: Reaktion Books
The rhinoceros’s horn and massive leathery frame belie its docile and solitary nature, causing the animal to be consistently perceived by humans as a monster
Language: en
Pages: 397
Pages: 397
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-15 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not
Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-06 - Publisher: Crown
The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As th
