The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... animals themselves . - During the millennia since the Old Stone Age began , man's ex- perience of the animal world has been varied and diverse . The men of the Stone Age held animals in awe the evidence is in the paintings and ...
... animals themselves . - During the millennia since the Old Stone Age began , man's ex- perience of the animal world has been varied and diverse . The men of the Stone Age held animals in awe the evidence is in the paintings and ...
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... animals had already been discovered , died hard . His work The Animal Kingdom surveyed in 1817 the extent of contemporary zoological knowledge : he described in all some 386 mammals . Seventy years later Leunis and Ludwig in 1886 listed ...
... animals had already been discovered , died hard . His work The Animal Kingdom surveyed in 1817 the extent of contemporary zoological knowledge : he described in all some 386 mammals . Seventy years later Leunis and Ludwig in 1886 listed ...
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... Animals Mentioned in the Bible ' ) , London , 1888 . Hooke , H. S .: Middle Eastern Mythology . Harmondsworth , 1963 . Knight , Alfred E .: Bible Plants and Animals . London , 1889 . Lathorp , Dorothy and Helen French : Animals in the ...
... Animals Mentioned in the Bible ' ) , London , 1888 . Hooke , H. S .: Middle Eastern Mythology . Harmondsworth , 1963 . Knight , Alfred E .: Bible Plants and Animals . London , 1889 . Lathorp , Dorothy and Helen French : Animals in the ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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