Strange and Wonderful
Subtitle: Exotic Flora and Fauna in Image and Imagination
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780190672539
Description: "Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5,000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. Strange and Wonderful offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to explore the root of this phenomenon in art"--