The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... man's experience and knowledge of these animals . Art , literature and folklore have become almost the last refuges for these creatures . The mind of man has become the ultimate Serengeti , the imagination the last great game park where ...
... man's experience and knowledge of these animals . Art , literature and folklore have become almost the last refuges for these creatures . The mind of man has become the ultimate Serengeti , the imagination the last great game park where ...
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... man's upright posture , which came from wading about in deep waters . Also it explains man's streamlined body , and the way in which the body - hair tracts flow back along the body from the crown . These tracts run in fig . 1 Evidence of ...
... man's upright posture , which came from wading about in deep waters . Also it explains man's streamlined body , and the way in which the body - hair tracts flow back along the body from the crown . These tracts run in fig . 1 Evidence of ...
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... Man - Eaters of Kumaon gives vivid impressions of the very real terror in which man - eating tigers are held by Indian villagers . His area of India , in the foothills of the Himalayas , would have been part of the classical India of ...
... Man - Eaters of Kumaon gives vivid impressions of the very real terror in which man - eating tigers are held by Indian villagers . His area of India , in the foothills of the Himalayas , would have been part of the classical India of ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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