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Return of the crazy bird : the sad, strange tale of the dodo / Clara Pinto-Correia.
Author
Correia, Clara Pinto
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Copernicus Books, ©2003.
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xv, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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QL696.C67 C67 2003
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"The Dodo went from being newly discovered to extinction in little more than a century. This flightless, odd-looking bird was seen for the first time by Europeans and then annihilated by Europeans all between the early sixteenth and the second half of the seventeenth century. By the end of the nineteenth century, all that remained of what Portuguese explorers called the "crazy bird" was a patchwork of tall tales, contradictory reports, incompatible illustrations, and a single dodo's skull and foot. The dodo had become, in short, an unsolvable puzzle, but a puzzle that persisted in art, literature, and scientific speculation." "In this remarkable book, Clara Pinto-Correia shows how the human intellect and the imagination prey on sketchy facts and images, and how missing pieces and incomplete lines are merged and fused to make a cohesive whole. By considering the incredibly strong hold of this bumbling and ungainly creature on our collective scientific and literary imagination, Pinto-Correia teaches us not just about the ill-fated bird from the island paradise of Mauritius, but about our own abiding need to make sense of the world around us."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.
Contents
Weirdest creatures
Discovery
Emperor and the painters
Mauritius and Rʹeunion
Rodrigues
Rise of dodology
Enduring legacy.
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ISBN
0387988769 ((alk. paper))
9780387988764 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2002070737
OCLC
49902900
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