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Author | : Gail Snyder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Dragons |
ISBN | : 9781601528551 |
Stories of fire-breathing dragons and the brave men who have fought them have entertained people for centuries. The sheer number of these stories and their persistence throughout time lead many to wonder: Do dragons exist?
Author | : Gail Snyder |
Publisher | : Referencepoint Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781601528544 |
Why do people believe in ghosts or vampires or any number of other seemingly fantastic beings? The answers to that question are many and varied. Some would attribute such belief to ignorance or superstition while others might cite personal experience or a rich tradition of stories dating back centuries. The Do They Exist? series encourages readers to critically examine the enduring belief in and skepticism about the existence of all sorts of paranormal entities or events. All books in the series include fully documented quotes and full-color photographs. Book jacket.
Author | : Adrienne Mayor |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2023-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691245606 |
The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.
Author | : Avram Davidson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2006-11-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 076530760X |
* Where did Sinbad Sail? * Who Fired the Phoenix? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Great Rough Beast * Postscript on Prester John * The Secret of Hyperborea * What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real, the true...and the things that should be true PREFACE BY PETER S. BEAGLE ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE BARR "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like." Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic--a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and--revealed at last--the Secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as "one of the great short story writers of our times." Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style--the late, great Avram Davidson's unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle's Preface to this volume, "cries out to be read aloud."
Author | : Peter Dickinson |
Publisher | : Collins & Brown |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Dragons |
ISBN | : 9781850284116 |
Combining fact with fantasy and science with romance, Peter Dickinson, an award-winning novelist, sets out to prove that dragons really did exist, whilst Wayne Anderson's illustrations bring these creatures to life.
Author | : David E. Jones |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134951329 |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Jack Kent |
Publisher | : Golden Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Dragons |
ISBN | : 9780307102140 |
Billy Bixbee's mother won't admit that dragons exist until it is nearly too late.
Author | : Carla Mooney |
Publisher | : ABDO Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1629681601 |
Dragons introduces you to one of the world's most popular legendary creatures. Learn where and why these legends began, how they are reflected in different cultures, and how they are understood today. Complete with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author | : Robin McKinley |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780399246753 |
When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher.
Author | : L.J. Tracosas |
Publisher | : becker&mayer! kids |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0760355290 |
Whether they were real or myth, Creature Files: Dragons shows you the folklore of twenty dragons from around the world and what the people believed about them. Do you believe dragons are nothing more than the scaly stuff of myths? Or do you think they really existed? Whatever side you're on, this collection of twenty fascinating creatures is sure to spark your imagination. In Creature Files: Dragons, you’ll take a tour through the world of fire-breathing, gold-hoarding, three-headed monsters and discover where and how these magical creatures came to be. Learn the unique folklore of cultures around the globe, from China to Russia to Eastern Africa, and see how people envisioned these otherworldly beasts through lush and evocative illustrations. Included are many meaty facts to gnaw on—like which dragon had too many teeth to count, and which dragon had teeth as big as an adult’s arm—along with a realistic dragon-tooth necklace! And science lovers will also find something to sink their teeth into: facts about real-life dragons that exist today. These dragons may not breathe fire, but they share some of the same traits as their mythical brethren.