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New World Bestiary, A

By: Douglas & McIntyre

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Reference Books (Douglas & McIntyre)

Last Stocked on 8/22/2019

Product Info

Title
New World Bestiary, A
Publisher
Category
Author
Mary Hamilton
Publish Year
1985
Dimensions
9x10.25x.4"
NKG Part #
2147744256
Type
Hardcover

Description

Most of the early explorers expected the New World to contain a variety of marvelous creatures. They had heard about them from people who familiar with the European nature books known as Bestiaries. From the time of the Greeks and Romans down through the Middle Ages, these "nature scrapbooks" described a variety of creatures, both fabulous and real, which supposedly lived in unexplored areas of the world.

By combining modern illustrations with first-hand accounts from a number of witnesses, this Bestiary tries to recreate the sense of excitement felt by people who had little science to explain some of their earliest experiences in the New World.