31 Mar 2021
The Book of Fish
When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.
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Moses Gunn General Gourgaud
Lee Montague Cipriani
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