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dodo: the perilous way of comfort

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Dave

There are people who put the dodo in a fabulous category, with unicorns, dragons, griffins, and centaurs, and people are generally amazed that the dodo actually existed. The dodo lived. The dodo lived on the island of Mauritius in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alice in Wonderland Dodo Bird, Captain West-Zanen, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Cornelis Matelief de Jonge, David Quammen, Francois Leguat, H.E. Strickland, Jan Goeimare, Lewis Carroll, Madame Pickwick, Natural History Museum London, Oxford Ashmolean Museum, Roelandt Savery, The Dodo Bird, Thomas Herbert, Willem van Westsanen | 1 Comment

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