The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... later forms . These creations are the first of a long series in art : the apo- calyptic beast connects with the strange beasts described later in this book ; the sorcerers from Lascaux and Trois Frères become in time the Minotaur of ...
... later forms . These creations are the first of a long series in art : the apo- calyptic beast connects with the strange beasts described later in this book ; the sorcerers from Lascaux and Trois Frères become in time the Minotaur of ...
Page 95
... later writers , particularly in an abstract made in the ninth century AD by Photius , Patriarch of Constantinople . It was from Ctesias that the Greeks , and later much of educated Europe , derived their ideas about the marvels of the ...
... later writers , particularly in an abstract made in the ninth century AD by Photius , Patriarch of Constantinople . It was from Ctesias that the Greeks , and later much of educated Europe , derived their ideas about the marvels of the ...
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... later underwent their own evolution , adding a spurious authenticity to the myth . Many of the later accounts of the Barnacle Goose myth were not taken from Gerald , but from the description by Hector Boece in his quite credulous ...
... later underwent their own evolution , adding a spurious authenticity to the myth . Many of the later accounts of the Barnacle Goose myth were not taken from Gerald , but from the description by Hector Boece in his quite credulous ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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