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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
by Glynis Ridley
- HISTORY
- 2006
- PAPER
- 240 PAGES
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The entertaining history of a most unusual eighteenth-century European celebrity. Clara the Indian rhinoceros was brought to Europe in 1741 by the Dutch sea captain Douwemout Van der Meer, and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of heads of state such as Louis XV and Frederick the Great. A marvelous and unique look at the introduction of Eastern wildlife into the Western world.
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