"Dirt cupcake mix, as American as apple pie. Nipple lightener from Japan. Tick juice, indispensable in Venezuela for black magic love rituals. Sunglasses from Zimbabwe with shades cut from plastic juice bottles and no lenses. Korean disposable straw sandals made especially for mourners and corpses. Is this stuff cool or what? But wait--there's more. Flip through this book in search of international weirdness, and it's a pretty sure bet y ..."
"DISCOVER THE WONDERFUL ABSURDITY OF A PRIEST'S PORTABLE MASS-IN-A-BRIEFCASE KIT, OR THE STUNNING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLYSWATTERS FROM ZIMBABWE AND SOUTH KOREA. OGLE AT THE JUXTAPOSITION OF NEOPRENE SURFING SHOES AND BULLFIGHTING SLIPPERS; HAVE A GANDER AT A PACKAGE OF EMU CUTLETS AND A CAN OF BLOWFISH SOUP...."
"Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680 1765) was so bewitched by seashells that he authored one of the world's most spectacular books dedicated to seashells. His La Conchyliologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Coquilles de Mer, d'Eau Douce, Terrestres et Fossiles, published at Paris in 1780, was a summa of contemporary knowledge in the complementary fields of mineralogy and conchology, and was so popular as to turn the study of natural ..."