An edition of The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn (1948)

The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn

an excursion into romantic zoology.

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An edition of The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn (1948)

The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn

an excursion into romantic zoology.

New ed., completely rev. and considerably enl.

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Viking Press
Language
English
Pages
361

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Subjects

Lungfishes, Folklore, Animals, Mythical Animals, Lung-fish, Costume, Colonies
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Cover of: The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn
The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn: an excursion into romantic zoology.
1948, Viking Press
in English - New ed., completely rev. and considerably enl.

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First Sentence

"Zoology, the science of animals, is, of course, very old."

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Borderlines of Zoology
Duration and Order of Geologic Periods
The Legend of the Unicorn
"There Were Giants in Those Days"
"...And Dragons Living in Caves"
Basilisk and Jenny Haniver
The Vegetable Animals
The Story of the Kraken
The Great Unknown of the Seas
Rumors and Shadows
The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
Urus, Wisent and Bison
The Almost Unknown Wild Horse
The Saga of the Geirfugl
The Curious Case of the Giant Sloth
As Dead as the Dodo
Limulus and Latimeria
A Century of Platypus
The Lungfish That Made History
New Zealand Interlude
Two-Thumbed Teddybear
The Origin of the Mammal
African Rhapsody
Index

Edition Notes

First pub. in 1941 under title: The lungfish and the unicorn.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
591.5
Library of Congress
QL89 .L45 1948

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 361 p.
Number of pages
361

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6031817M
Internet Archive
lungfishdodounic00leyw
LCCN
48008709
OCLC/WorldCat
522687, 193208311
Library Thing
1753452

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