A New World Of Animals
Subtitle: Early Modern Europeans On The Creatures Of Iberian America
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780754607793
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Zoology & animal sciences; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; History; Science; History: World; South America; Modern - General; Europe - General; Animals; Latin America
First sentence: When Columbus set sail in 1492, he expected to find Cathay and the kingdom of the Great Khan, the pearls of Cipangu, species, gold, riches, perhaps the marvels of India, the biblical islands of Ophir, Saba, Tarshish, the distant Taprobana, the Aurea Chersonese and, without being aware of it, he found a new land.