The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... mind the twelfth - century relief of Alexander's aerial jour- ney carved on the front of San Marco in Venice , which he would have known in his childhood . Another famous account of the griffins was contained in Sir John Mandeville's ...
... mind the twelfth - century relief of Alexander's aerial jour- ney carved on the front of San Marco in Venice , which he would have known in his childhood . Another famous account of the griffins was contained in Sir John Mandeville's ...
Page 88
... mind is the identity of the roc with the albatross . This weird sea - wanderer is familiar from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner . Actually he seems to have had in fig . 3 Wandering Albatross mind the smaller version , the Sooty ...
... mind is the identity of the roc with the albatross . This weird sea - wanderer is familiar from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner . Actually he seems to have had in fig . 3 Wandering Albatross mind the smaller version , the Sooty ...
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... mind , and banished them along with much else , back into the unconscious or subconscious , or whatever one calls the dark labyrinths of the mind where the minotaur and all these other creatures wander still . These creations , master ...
... mind , and banished them along with much else , back into the unconscious or subconscious , or whatever one calls the dark labyrinths of the mind where the minotaur and all these other creatures wander still . These creations , master ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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