Scurvy

Name: Scurvy
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691147826
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Autor: Jonathan Lamb

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Vazba: Pevná

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Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major literary works, Lamb tr...

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Autor

Jonathan Lamb

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2016

Stránek

328

EAN

9780691147826

ISBN

0691147825

Enbook ID

04641782

Vydavatel

Princeton University Press

Hmotnost

638

Rozměry

243 x 166 x 27

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Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major literary works, Lamb traces the cultural impact of scurvy during the eighteenth-century age of geographical and scientific discovery. He explains the medical knowledge surrounding scurvy and the debates about its cause, prevention, and attempted cures. He vividly describes the phenomenon and experience of "scorbutic nostalgia," in which victims imagined mirages of food, water, or home, and then wept when such pleasures proved impossible to consume or reach. Lamb argues that a culture of scurvy arose in the colony of Australia, which was prey to the disease in its early years, and identifies a literature of scurvy in the works of such figures as Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Bacon, and Jonathan Swift.

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