| Search Antiqbook |
Ask a question or
Order this book
Browse our books
Search our books
Book dealer info
FREEMAN, RICHARD Explore Dragons
Loughborough, Leics., United Kingdom, Explore Books (an Imprint of Heart of Albion Press) 2006, Soft Cover New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1872883931 The dragon is the most ancient and widespread of all monsters. Dragon legends are told in every culture and in every continent on Earth. Its breath condenses and forms rain in China. It slithers across the heavens in Mexico as Quetzalcoatl. In Scandinavian lore its coils encircled the whole earth. No other monster is so universal in its occurrence or so varied. But the Britain Isles are the homeland of the dragon. Although a small country, it is seething with dragon legends. Explore Dragons puts British dragon stories into their international context and attempts to fathom out what really lurks behind these fanciful tales. Could dragons once have been real creatures? Are such creatures still alive? Richard Freeman is a former zookeeper and has a degree in zoology. He is the zoological director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology in Exeter. A full-time cryptozoologist, he has searched for monsters and mystery animals in Indo-China, Sumatra, and Mongolia as well as in the UK. 187 + viii pages, 7 b&w photographs, 13 line drawings.
Offered for GBP 12.95 = appr. US$ 21.19 by: Zouch Books - Book number: 012388