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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.

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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.

Henry Lee

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Medieval travelers swore a plant grew tiny lambs on its stalks, a woolly beast rooted to the ground. Henry Lee traces this strange legend of the vegetable lamb to its real source: the cotton plant, misunderstood by wonder-struck Europeans. Part folklore, part botany, it is a delightful piece of detective work. Unravel one of history's oddest natural myths.

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17 chapters

  1. 1THE VEGETABLE LAMB OF TARTARY; A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. 4PREFACE.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. THE FABLE AND ITS INTERPRETATION.
  6. 6CHAPTER II. The History of Cotton and its Introduction into Europe.
  7. 7APPENDIX.
  8. 8A (p. 2). Sir John Mandeville.
  9. 9B (p. 8). Odoricus of Friuli.
  10. 10C (p. 11). Sigismund von Herberstein.
  11. 11D (p. 14). Julius Cæsar Scaliger.
  12. 12E (p. 21). Jans Janszoon Strauss, otherwise Jean de Struys.
  13. 13F (p. 28). John Bell of Autermony.
  14. 14G (p. 52). The Three Black Crows. By Dr. John Byrom.
  15. 15H (p. 71). The Destruction of the Alexandrine Library.
  16. 16INDEX.
  17. 17Transcriber’s Notes
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