Curiosities of Natural History, in Four Volumes: Fourth Series

Author:   Francis T Buckland ,  Loren Coleman
Publisher:   Cosimo Classics
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9781605205557


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Format:   Paperback
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"A pioneer in the strange art and ambiguous science of zo�phagy-that is, of studying animals by eating them-British natural historian FRANCIS TREVELYAN BUCKLAND (1826-1880) was a wildly popular speaker and writer of the Victorian era. In his classic four-volume Curiosities of Natural History, published between 1857 and 1872, he shared his love of creatures exotic and mysterious with readers who devoured his charming and erudite essays much in the same way he devoured his animal subjects. ""If there is one person that I would have expected to have captured a sea serpent in the 19th century for the sole purpose of eating it, it would be Frank Buckland,"" writes cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction to Buckland's series. One of the founding grandfathers of cryptozoology, the discipline that investigates animal mysteries, Buckland was not ""a wild-eyed 'true believer' in anything strange,"" insists Coleman, but brought, instead, ""a skeptical, open-minded approach"" to his work. Indeed, here, in the ""fourth series"" of Curiosities of Natural History, Buckland's erudition is clear in his animated discussions of, among many other things, measuring a French giant, the ""woolly woman of Hayti,"" performing fleas, six thousand parakeets, the intemperance of salmon, and fossil pork. This new edition, a replica of the 1888 ""Popular Edition,"" is part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. LOREN COLEMAN is author of numerous books of cryptozoology, including Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters."

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Author:   Francis T Buckland ,  Loren Coleman
Publisher:   Cosimo Classics
Imprint:   Cosimo Classics
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781605205557


ISBN 10:   1605205559
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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