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xvii, 491 p. diagr. 22 cm. |
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The feast of knowledge -- The book and the flea -- In the beginning: The Bible -- Glorious descendants: China -- Hungry for Phoenix-eggs: The adventures -- The peacock's plume: Egypt, Greece, Rome -- One man's meat: Cannibals and poisoners -- Parfit gentil knights: The middle ages -- Noble and enough: The renaissance -- Vanity fair: Eighteenth-and-nineteenth century England -- A confusion of tongues: Russia, France, Germany, England -- The noble flummery: Fantasy -- O pioneers! America. |
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Literature.
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Gastronomy.
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