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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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