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"[A] glittering and kaleidoscopic work....[C]haracterized by a mellifluous style, and considerable, even arcane, erudition....[but] This is not the 'hawk's eye image of the world' that the blurb claims, but rather the world as viewed by a cultured and energetic magpie, who often cannot tell gems from baubles, or even style from substance."Fernández-Armesto, Felipe is the author of 'Civilizations Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature', published 2002 under ISBN 9780743202497 and ISBN 074320249X.
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