Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic

by Claire Cock-Starkey

Can you remember seeing a tiger for the first time? Tasting a pineapple? Touching a cactus? Probably not, because in these modern times everyone is very knowing--knowledge is at our fingertips and it sometimes feels as if there is nothing new to discover. The awe and excitement from that moment has been lost because these objects and experiences have become ordinary to us. But, if we travel back in time a few hundred years, before the age of globalization,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712356363
• ISBN13: 9780712356367
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"