How the Chicken Crossed the World: The Story of the Bird that Powers Civilisation by Andrew Lawler, Andrew Lawler

How the Chicken Crossed the World: The Story of the Bird that Powers Civilisation

Andrew Lawler, Andrew Lawler

337 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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Queen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates' last words were about it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs using it. Hailed as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, all-purpose medicine and ...

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