Dragons: A Natural History - Hardcover

Shuker, Karl P. N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684814439 ISBN 13: 9780684814438

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Synopsis

An overview of the world of dragons, from ancient Greece and medieval Europe to pre-Columbian America and ancient China, features lore about the origins, feats, and histories of these mysterious beasts

About this title

From Booklist:

If you ever encounter a dragon, it would be good to have this book on hand. Thanks to it, you will be able to recognize the particular species of the beast you have met, whether worm, basilisk, cockatrice, tarasque, peluda, or mere dragonet. Knowing such information could keep you from accidentally feeding a baby wyvern, as a girl named Maud did in Herefordshire, whereupon it grew into a winged monster that terrorized the countryside until it was finally dispatched by a fearless knight. Charmingly written and gorgeously illustrated with dragons ranging from Babylonian Ishtar's guard dragon as portrayed in mosaic bas-relief to Quetzalcoatl in Mayan codices to the creature Saint George famously fought, this is an excellent popular folklore tome. Patricia Monaghan

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0684814439
• ISBN 13: 9780684814438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120