Download or read book Sea Monsters Unmasked written by Henry Lee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Lee's Sea Monsters Unmasked is a classic volume in the skeptical canon, casting a critical gaze on the myths and legends of the sea, including the Kraken, the sea-serpent, mermaids, and more. Lee's investigations into the reality behind these myths was more than a century ahead of its time. This edition is an unabridged republication in one volume of the editions of Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained published by William Clowes and Sons, Limited in 1883.
Download or read book Sea Monsters Unmasked Classic Reprint written by Henry Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sea Monsters Unmasked In treating of the so-called sea-serpent, I have been anticipated by many able writers. Mr. Gosse, in his delightful book, 'the Romance of Natural History, ' published in 1862, devoted a chapter to it and numerous articles concerning it have appeared in various papers and periodicals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Sea Fables Explained Classic Reprint written by Henry Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sea Fables Explained The little book 'sea Monsters Unmasked, ' recently issued as one Of the Handbooks in connection with the Great International Fisheries Exhibition has met with SO favourable a reception, that I have been honoured by the request to continue the subject, and to treat also Of some of the Fables of the Sea, which once were universally believed, and even now are not utterly extinct. The topic is not here exhausted. Other sea fables and fallacies might be mentioned and explained; but the amount Of letter-press, and the number of illustrations that can be printed without loss' for the small sun} of one Shilling - the price at which these Handbooks are uniformly published - is necessarily limited. I have, therefore, thought it better to endeavour to make each chapter as complete as possible than to crowd into the space allotted to me a greater variety of subjects less fully and carefully discussed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained written by Henry Lee and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sea Monsters Unmasked" was written by aquarium director Henry Lee for the 1883 Fisheries Exhibition, along with "Sea Fables Explained." Sea Monsters Unmasked delves deeply into the Kraken, or giant squid, as well as Sea Serpents. The book is packed with data and illustrations gleaned from news sources and eyewitness accounts of cryptozoological subjects. Readers will enjoy its companion piece, Sea Fables Explained, which discusses a variety of creatures, including Merpeople, to round out their knowledge of the underwater cryptozoo menagerie.
Download or read book SEA MONSTERS UNMASKED written by HENRY. LEE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Monsters Unmasked Illustrated written by Henry Lee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * This classic work is brought to new life with over 100 images to illustrate and enhance the readers' experience. Is the Loch Ness Monster real? What about those sea serpents sighted by countless sailors over the ages? How about mermaids? Naturalist Henry Lee gives you the history, the recorded sightings, and the likely explanations. Meet the fearsome creatures of the deep that qualify as sea monsters. And see rare photographs of the oarfish, a true-life sea serpent encountered by seafarers, curious scientists, and hapless beachcombers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts, etchings, and modern-day photographs.
Download or read book Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained written by Henry W. Lee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained" from Henry W. Lee. Prominent British socialist (1865-1932).
Download or read book Sea Monsters written by Joseph Nigg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Download or read book Sea Monsters The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus s Marine Map written by Joseph Nigg and published by Ivy Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olaus Magnus’s 1539 Carta Marina can be considered the major source of Renaissance sea monster iconography and lore. The map and its voluminous commentary, History of the Northern Peoples, established Olaus as the innovative historian of the sea serpent, the giant squid and sea monsters in general. Sea Monsters is structured around Olaus’s map – which is reproduced as a beautiful fold-out on the back of this book jacket – and the charts that two pre-eminent sixteenth-century cartographers derived from it: Sebastian Münster’s Monstra Marina & Terrestria (1544) and Abraham Ortelius’s Islandia (1590). All three charts are remarkable for their identification of sea beasts in lettered keys. The keys are included in the book, enabling the reader to match corresponding beasts with each other and with the text. Joseph Nigg introduces readers to Olaus’s fantastic sea beasts by taking an imaginary voyage up the northern seas of the historic Carta Marina map, with Olaus himself as guide. After the Swedish cartographer has introduced each creature, it bursts forth in stunning art, followed by a discussion of its meaning and influence. Olaus’s marine beasts multiplied in natural histories, and his map inspired and influenced marine zoology and cartography for centuries thereafter. Sea Monsters is an enthralling tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters and the mythic.
Download or read book Monsters of the Sea written by John Gibson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Monsters of the Sea: Legendary and Authentic IN ancient times little was known of the sea and its inhabitants. A wide field was thus presented for the play of the imagination, and 'so the waste of waters came to be peopled with a host of fanciful monsters. The better knowledge of modern times, while it has swept the most of this away, and reduced the remainder to truthful proportions, has at the same time made known the existence in the sea of animals much more truly wonderful than any the ancients ever imagined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mythical Beasts Coloring Book written by Fridolf Johnson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty handsome drawings of fabled creatures: mermaid, centaur, phoenix, basilisk, kraken (a huge sea monster sometimes mistaken for an island), manticore (a beast of three different parts), and more.
Download or read book Sea Fables Explained written by Henry Lee and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea Fables Explained was published, along with its counterpart, Sea Monsters Unmasked by aquarium director Henry Lee for the Fisheries Exhibition of 1883. Sea Fables Explained covers a variety of sea creatures, but of special interest to cryptozoologists is Lee's treatment of Mermaids, Mermen, and Merbeings in general. As Loren Coleman notes in the introduction, the books are small in size, but filled with data and illustrations taken from news sources and eyewitness accounts of his cryptozoological subjects. Part of the Loren Coleman Presents series for Cosimo Classics, readers are sure to enjoy its partner piece, Sea Monsters Unmasked, which deals with the Kraken and the Sea Serpent, to round out their knowledge of underwater species. HENRY LEE (1826-1888) was the naturalist and director of the Brighton Aquarium in England. As a great observer of the collection's underwater life, and wrote the Aquarium Notes for the visitors and authored several books on underwater life, including The Octopus (1874) and Sea Monsters Unmasked (1883), and Sea Fables Explained (1883). He was also a contributor to the magazine Land and Water. Lee died at age 62, after some years of ill-health, at Renton House, Brixton, on Halloween, October 31, 1888.
Download or read book Are Sea Monsters Real written by Ginjer L. Clarke and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the history of sea monsters in this photographic nonfiction leveled reader perfect for kids interested in the natural - and unnatural - world! Did you know that the legendary Hercules fought against the hydra, a sea monster with many heads? Or that the giant squid may not sink ships like the hydra, but it is still powerful enough to use its 30-foot-long tentacles to turn a whale into prey? That means that enormous creatures still lurk in the depths of the ocean! Embracing children's delight in the mythical creatures while also imparting fascinating facts about the real ones, discover the history of these special animals and decide for yourself if you believe in sea monsters! With simple language and vivid photographs, Are Sea Monsters Real? is perfect for emerging readers curious about the natural world and these legendary creatures.
Download or read book The Book of Sea Monsters written by Nigel Suckling and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind has always had a fascination for sea monsters, whether real or imagined. Bob Eggleton gives them shape and form with his illustrations and Nigel Suckling pr ovides a well-researched historical perspective on these den izens of the deep. '
Download or read book The Sea Monster s Secret written by Malka Drucker and published by Gulliver Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man proves himself to be resourceful and brave, despite the mockery of his nagging mother-in-law, when he wears the skin of the ferocious sea monster he has slain.
Download or read book Sea Monsters of Long Ago written by Millicent Ellis Selsam and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 1984 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations introduce aquatic reptiles that swam in the oceans more than 70 million years ago.
