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名前：Frederick日付：2014/12/29 18:08:42
Whereabouts in are you from? vantin We start with the axolotl, a disconcertingly human salamander with a large head, fixed smile and which has the handy ability to re-grow any limbs that get severed. Given the form of the book, you might expect a natural history essay about the habitats and behaviour of the animal. That does happen, to a limited extent. Instead, Henderson gives us a meandering cultural history of how the axolotl has been become known to zoologists, from ancient Greece to medieval England and many stops besides. One moment we're reading about early, wild theories of the evolution of the aquatic homunculus as an explanation for how water-dwelling creatures might have ended up on land; a few pages later Henderson is describing the ravaging effects of smallpox on the native populations of the New World during the Spanish conquest.
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