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Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times by Susan Pickford, Robert Muchembled

Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times

Susan Pickford, Robert Muchembled

260 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad ...

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