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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.
Henry Lee
116 pages~2 hr 19 min read17 chapters$4.99
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
- 1THE VEGETABLE LAMB OF TARTARY; A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4PREFACE.
- 5CHAPTER I. THE FABLE AND ITS INTERPRETATION.
- 6CHAPTER II. The History of Cotton and its Introduction into Europe.
- 7APPENDIX.
- 8A (p. 2). Sir John Mandeville.
- 9B (p. 8). Odoricus of Friuli.
- 10C (p. 11). Sigismund von Herberstein.
- 11D (p. 14). Julius Cæsar Scaliger.
- 12E (p. 21). Jans Janszoon Strauss, otherwise Jean de Struys.
- 13F (p. 28). John Bell of Autermony.
- 14G (p. 52). The Three Black Crows. By Dr. John Byrom.
- 15H (p. 71). The Destruction of the Alexandrine Library.
- 16INDEX.
- 17Transcriber’s Notes
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