Download or read book Gloucester s Sea Serpent written by Wayne Soini and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1817, as Gloucester, Massachusetts, was recovering from the War of 1812, something beneath the water was about to cause a stir in this New England coastal community. It was a misty August day when two women first sighted Gloucester's sea serpent, touching off a riptide of excitement among residents that reached a climax when Matt Gaffney fired a direct shot at the creature. Local historian Wayne Soini explores the depths of Gloucester harbor to reveal a treasure-trove of details behind this legendary mystery. Follow as he tracks Justice of the Peace Lonson Nash's careful investigation, the world's first scientific study of this marine animal, and judges the credibility of numerous reported sightings.
Download or read book Disentangled written by Robert L. France and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definitive Study and Solution to the Centuries-old Mystery of the World's Most Sighted Sea Serpent There is a long history of conflating sightings of unidentified marine objects (UMOs) as purported sea serpents. Most sightings are either of an extremely brief duration or made by a single observer, and thus often easy to dismiss. This is not the case, however, with respect to the so-called Gloucester Sea Serpent which frequented the Massachusetts and New York coasts during the early nineteenth century. Witnessed by hundreds of people for extended periods repeatedly over many days, the Gloucester UMO is the most sighted 'sea serpent' in history. As well, due to being the object of study at the time and shortly thereafter by naturalists, the mysterious creature remains the most thoroughly investigated of all putative sea serpents. For these reasons, it has achieved an exalted status among cryptozoologists who maintain it represents the best evidence for the existence of sea serpents. For the first time, an eminently qualified aquatic biologist and ethnozoologist presents the definitive history of the phenomena and carefully examines the evidence. It is concluded that the most parsimonious explanation behind the Gloucester Sea Serpent is as early evidence for what is today recognized as being one of the most serious threats to marine biodiversity: entanglement in fishing gear and other maritime debris. Therefore, although widely considered to be restricted to the advent and widespread use of non-degradable plastic in the middle of the twentieth century, this new interpretation of the Gloucester UMO suggests that entanglement has a much longer environmental history than is commonly believed. Robert L. France is a world-renowned scientist at Dalhousie University and the author or editor of twenty books and two hundred papers on a wide range of environmental subjects. He has undertaken conservation biology research from the High Arctic to the tropics, on organisms from bacteria to whales, which has been cited many thousands of times in the literature. Dr. France is a leading authority on many aspects of aquatic zoology, including marine ecology and ethnozoology, and may be the most qualified person to have recently undertaken research and published peer-reviewed articles on the beguiling and befuddling topic of aquatic mystery animals, known as 'cryptids'.
Download or read book THe Sea serpent written by William Crafts and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Serpent Came to Gloucester written by M.T. Anderson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author and illustrator present a tribute to the beauty and mystery of the ocean. It came from the sea, from the lonely sea, It came from the glittering sea. In a small Massachusetts fishing village in August of 1817, dozens of citizens claimed to have seen an enormous sea serpent swimming off the coast. Terrified at first, the people of Gloucester eventually became quite accustomed to their new neighbor. Adventure seekers came from miles around to study the serpent and aggressively hunt it down, but the creature eluded capture. The Gloucester sea serpent was then, and remains now, a complete mystery. Reviving the rhythms and tone of a traditional sea chanty, M.T. Anderson recounts this exhilarating sea adventure through the eyes of a little boy who secretly hopes for the serpent's survival. The author's captivating verse is paired with Bagram Ibatoulline's luminous paintings, created in the spirit of nineteenth-century New England maritime artists.
Download or read book The Great New England Sea Serpent written by J. P. O'Neill and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it a strange mammal related to the seals, a descendant of a prehistoric reptile, or a new, unidentified animal? Whatever it is, or was, the witnesses call it a sea serpent. Remarkably similar descriptions of a creature with a long body, undulating motion, and horse-sized, snake-like head have left a trail of clues and controversy going back three centuries. In "The Great New England Sea Serpent," J.P. O'Neill draws on the historical record as well as previously unpublished first-hand accounts to chronicle more than 230 sightings of the mysterious marine creatures inhabiting the Gulf of Maine.
Download or read book The Case for the Sea serpent written by Rupert Thomas Gould and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of the American Historical Library Collection of Alfred S Manson Boston Mass written by Alfred Small Manson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Monsters Unmasked written by Henry Lee and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mythical Monsters written by Charles Gould and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Sea serpent written by A.C. Oudemans (Jzn.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monsters of Massachusetts written by Loren Coleman and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loren Coleman is the first and last name in cryptozoology. He's blazed the trail for so many of us. Massachusetts mysteries like the Dover Demon and the Bridgewater Triangle have names because Coleman discovered and named them. His years of research gathering the cryptid sightings, physical evidence, and details of these strange creatures and legends have paid off in a big way in Monsters of Massachusetts. --Jeff Belanger, author of Weird Massachusetts Bizarre beasts of the Bay State featured in this volume include . . . • Dover Demon • Gloucester Sea Serpent • Hockomock Swamp's Beasties • Pukwudgees • Bigfoot
Download or read book Sea Serpents Sailors Sceptics written by Graham J. McEwan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978 Sea Serpents, Sailors and Sceptics looks at stories of folklore and mythology which have fascinated sailors from antiquity to the modern day. From stories of large unauthenticated sea creatures to the Loch Ness Monster, documented sightings are vast and the book provides a concise survey and review of the subject of ocean folklore. It shows how some large sea creatures, such as the giant squid, have been established and addresses some of the explanations of sea serpents and other sea creatures as now known, categorised species and offers a classification of these species that have formulated the mythologies of the sea throughout time. The book discusses how relatively little is known about the sea still and offers a practical look at the possibility that these mythological creatures, might in fact be, as yet undiscovered species. This book provides a unique interdisciplinary volume, crossing between the area of literature and folklore, and natural historians alike, and will appeal to academics working in the field of natural history and folklore alike.
Download or read book The Great Sea serpent Upon the Coast of New England In 1817 written by Neptune and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unidentified written by Colin Dickey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a "thought-provoking and delicoiusly unsettling" (Publisher's Weekly) tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common, explaining that today's Illuminati is yesterday's Flat Earth: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America's wildest fringe beliefs--from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials, or possibly both, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam, to the museum containing the last remaining "evidence" of the great Kentucky Meat Shower--investigating how these theories come about, why they take hold, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious, wry, brilliant in his analysis, yet eminently readable.
Download or read book Report of a Committee of the Linnaean Society of New England Relative to a Large Marine Animal Supposed to be a Serpent Seen Near Cape Ann Massachusetts in August 1817 written by Linnaean Society of New England and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Himawari House written by Harmony Becker and published by First Second. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in a new country is no walk in the park—Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that. The three of them became fast friends through living together in the Himawari House in Tokyo and attending the same Japanese cram school. Nao came to Japan to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, while Hyejung and Tina came to find freedom and their own paths. Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self discovery, love, and family.
Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology written by Vlad Stankovic and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated encyclopedia showcases and describes the mysterious cryptid creatures from around the world. Conceived as a blend of science and fantasy, vintage and modern, it is a visual guide to the world that lurks beyond our current knowledge of nature. It's a collection of colorful and fascinating menagerie of mysterious creatures that were witnessed and reported by people from around the world - from the remote deserts of Australia to the high mountains of North America and beyond.
