The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History by Juan Pimentel, Peter Mason

The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History

Juan Pimentel, Peter Mason

368 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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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, ...

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