The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... wild and unruly lot , was the wise and civilised Cheiron . Hercules accidentally wounded Cheiron in the leg with a poisoned arrow , which eventually led to his death . Robert Graves has suggested that the original centaurs may have been ...
... wild and unruly lot , was the wise and civilised Cheiron . Hercules accidentally wounded Cheiron in the leg with a poisoned arrow , which eventually led to his death . Robert Graves has suggested that the original centaurs may have been ...
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... Wild Ass , with the Indian one - horned rhinoceros . The natural history of the unicorn is , as one can see , a very complicated affair . Further references to the wild - ass unicorn occur in Pliny , Aelian , Oppian , even in Julius ...
... Wild Ass , with the Indian one - horned rhinoceros . The natural history of the unicorn is , as one can see , a very complicated affair . Further references to the wild - ass unicorn occur in Pliny , Aelian , Oppian , even in Julius ...
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... wild men ' . The wild men were hirsute , carried heavy clubs or branches of wood , and instead of clothes , covered their nakedness with foliage . These were the Homo sylvestris which Linné included at the head of his catalogue of ...
... wild men ' . The wild men were hirsute , carried heavy clubs or branches of wood , and instead of clothes , covered their nakedness with foliage . These were the Homo sylvestris which Linné included at the head of his catalogue of ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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