Poor Conseil 😂
And poor hotel employees who'll have to feed a babirusa haha
(and poor babirusa that has to live in a hotel 🤣)
Poor Conseil 😂
And poor hotel employees who'll have to feed a babirusa haha
(and poor babirusa that has to live in a hotel 🤣)
"In him I had an extremely capable specialist in natural history classification who could scale with the agility of a circus performer the ladder of branches, groups, classes, sub-classes, orders, families, genera, subgenera, species and varieties."
Have you ever passed by a book that you just had to have? How was I supposed to leave this gorgeous edition of Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" behind in the shop? Impossible!
Also, how amazing is this Penguin series of clothbound classics? I'm in love ?
Gotta "catch'em all" now ?
I think what's most remarkable is how much of this book can still be full of (fictional?) wonders for the average modern reader, the bottom of the ocean has not become less remote a prospect for most to explore despite 150 years of scientific and technological progress. 1/?
Interesting to see the cognitive dissonance at work in the characters that history shows on repeat: 'Don't hunt that for sport, it's endangered, but do hunt that, we want (don't NEED) to eat it, or that, because there's profit and plenty and we'll never run out.' 🤦🏼♂️
150 years ago, maybe...😞
Poor M. Aronnax. Compilation of 'the shark bit'. 🤭🦈
You...kicked it? Well, what is the process of scientific discovery but 'fuck around and find out' by another name?! 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️