The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... shows the Minotaur gazing out to sea to- wards the approaching Greek ships , a small bird crushed under his fist . A very real fear communicates itself from this painting done some fifteen hundred years after the murder of the Minotaur ...
... shows the Minotaur gazing out to sea to- wards the approaching Greek ships , a small bird crushed under his fist . A very real fear communicates itself from this painting done some fifteen hundred years after the murder of the Minotaur ...
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... shows a creature with both bird's legs and a fish tail . For medieval writers the siren repre- sented the fatal lure of the flesh which would draw good men to their doom . But for Pliny , writing in the first fifty years of the ...
... shows a creature with both bird's legs and a fish tail . For medieval writers the siren repre- sented the fatal lure of the flesh which would draw good men to their doom . But for Pliny , writing in the first fifty years of the ...
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... show the peculiar stalk and seminal duct of the barnacle . So there seems to be little doubt that in some way they are related to the strange story Gerald heard from the West of Ireland , and which still sur- vives along the west coast ...
... show the peculiar stalk and seminal duct of the barnacle . So there seems to be little doubt that in some way they are related to the strange story Gerald heard from the West of Ireland , and which still sur- vives along the west coast ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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