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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Early modern elephants
Thomas Coryate:
Cristoforo Borri:
You can read Borri's whole chapter about "Eelphants" (sic.) here, along with the rest of his book, and very entertaining it is too - he seems to have been genuinely charmed by them. Thanks to peacay for pointing me towards Southeast Asia Visions, where there are no doubt many other wonders to be found.
For some contexts, see this paper, published in Early Modern Literary Studies, 11.1, May 2005.
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Comments
I kind of get the feeling that's a relatively new repository. Definitely good value from the little I've seen so far!
One of these days I'll spend more time looking inside for goodness rather than merely saving the links ;-)
Posted by: peacay | May 18, 2006 3:58:47 AM
I pop by Cornell once in a while, and I hadn't seen it before, so thank you, again.
I thought I'd start at the beginning, more or less, and was beguiled by Cristoforo Borri and his elephants - he really does seem to have been fascinated by them. I only wish there was a more precise way to search the images: they seem to have been categorised rather broadly. However, serendipity is always good, too...
Posted by: dave | May 18, 2006 9:06:48 PM
No worries. Asia (as well as Africa, E. Europe, S. America) is very underrepresented on the web, particularly in old book/print images so it's kind of nice to see a bit of 'collateral' effort being put in by a big institution. Cheers.
Posted by: peacay | May 19, 2006 1:08:24 PM
