Mythical monsters
Title:
Mythical monsters / Charles Gould.
Author/Creator:
Publication:
London : Bracken Books, 1989.
Physical description:
407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Copy specific information:
Copy is accompanied by a copy of 'Tasmanian Club' newsletter, 31 August 1992, containing a review of this book. Item ID128152170
Notes:
Originally published: London : W.H. Allen & Co., 1886.
"With 93 black and white illustrations"-- Jacket.
Chapter 9 about the sea-serpent contains quotations from the observations and reports of Australasian mariners, for example pages 262, 299 and 325.
Bibliography: pages 27-30.
Contents:
1. On some remarkable animal forms -- 2. Extinction of species -- 3. Antiquity of man -- 4. The deluge not a myth -- 5. On the translation of myths between the old and the new world -- 6. The dragon -- 7. The Chinese dragon -- 8. The Japanese dragon -- 9. The sea-serpent -- 10. The unicorn -- The Chinese phoenix -- Appendices.
Summary:
Written about 25 years after Darwin published his 'Origin of the species', Gould sets out to examine the connections between the fabulous animals of many lands, ages and cultures and the evidence of their actual existence.
ISBN:
1851702695
9781851702695
Record ID:
SD_ILS:643306