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Название книги: The Courtship of the Queen
Автор(ы): Bruce McAllister
Жанр: Фэнтези
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Courtship-of-the-Queen-192401.html
When he was a child, he was stranger than many children, but not as strange as some. What he lacked in normalcy he more than made up for in passion, sense of wonder and acquisitiveness—the virtues that make any collector (or hunter) great. By the age of ten he had collected more than two thousand seashells, providing each, as any good scientist would, with its own neatly labeled card that listed its Latin and common names, where it had been collected and when and by whom, and the temperature that day. If he or his parents had purchased the seashell or it had been given to him by someone who did not have such information, that was all right; the card would at least bear its names. What mattered most was the beauty of the bivalve or univalve, the clam or snail, its personality, its character, and its role in the larger scheme of things, which the boy saw clearly.He kept his seashells in the drawers of two nice oak dressers in his room and, as well, in the drawers of the ten junkier dresse
Название книги: The Courtship of the Queen
Автор(ы): Bruce McAllister
Жанр: Фэнтези
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Courtship-of-the-Queen-192401.html
When he was a child, he was stranger than many children, but not as strange as some. What he lacked in normalcy he more than made up for in passion, sense of wonder and acquisitiveness—the virtues that make any collector (or hunter) great. By the age of ten he had collected more than two thousand seashells, providing each, as any good scientist would, with its own neatly labeled card that listed its Latin and common names, where it had been collected and when and by whom, and the temperature that day. If he or his parents had purchased the seashell or it had been given to him by someone who did not have such information, that was all right; the card would at least bear its names. What mattered most was the beauty of the bivalve or univalve, the clam or snail, its personality, its character, and its role in the larger scheme of things, which the boy saw clearly.He kept his seashells in the drawers of two nice oak dressers in his room and, as well, in the drawers of the ten junkier dresse
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