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Author : Neil Coates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781291998856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (988 download)
Download or read book A Bestiary of Sundry Creatures written by Neil Coates and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consolidation of medieval bestiaries, with an eye for use OSR games and Mörk Borg.
Author : Pauline Baynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845074746
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Questionable Creatures written by Pauline Baynes and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bestiaries" - small illustrated books on all the creatures thought to exist in the world - are perhaps the most entertaining literature to have come down to us from the Middle Ages. They included detailed descriptions of the characteristics and habits of animals, fish, birds, insects and mythological creatures, many of the 'facts' unproven, inaccurate and bizarre. Now the legendary illustrator, Pauline Baynes, has spun together a gloriously amusing text and delightful illustrations "with some liberty" from various bestiaries in England, adding a fascinating introduction to give the full, fabulous flavour of these mediaeval gems of misbelief.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1625791380
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Bestiary written by Gardner Dozois and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about legendary creatures of myth and magic! An anthology of extraordinary stories about legendary creatures of myth and magic features works by Tanith Lee, T.H. White, Jane Yolen, and Gene Wolfe _The Man Who Painted the Dragon GriauleÓ by Lucius Shepard _Draco, DracoÓ by Tanith Lee _The Rule of NamesÓ by Ursula K. Le Guin _The Black HornÓ by Jack Dann _Walk Like a mountainÓ by Manly Wade Wellman _Treaty in TartessosÓ by Karen Anderson _The Woman Who Loved the Centaur PholusÓ by Gene Wolfe _The Sleep of TreesÓ by Jane Yolen _The Hardwood PileÓ by L. Sprague de Camp _The Blind MinotaurÓ by Michael Swanwick _Landscape with SphinxesÓ by Karen Anderson _Simpsons Lesser SphynxÓ by Esther M. Friesner _Gods Hooks!Ó by Howard Waldrop _A Leg Full of RubiesÓ by Joan Aiken _The Valor of Cappen VarraÓ by Poul Anderson _The TrollÓ by T. H. White _Return of the GriffinsÓ by A. E. Sandeling _The Last of His BreedÓ by Rob Chilson At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (62 download)
Download or read book A Bestiary written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanna Bagniewska
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588347435
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Modern Bestiary written by Joanna Bagniewska and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky collection of Earth’s most compelling animals who give mythical creatures a run for their money The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Wildlife mirrors the medieval tradition of an encyclopedia of incredible beasts, only this charming book with ornamental illustrations features 100 real animals who are stranger than fiction. Organized by the elements Earth, Water, and Air, the book introduces both unfamiliar creatures, like deep-sea harp sponges who catch prey in their barbs and digest them whole, as well as ones that have made headlines, such as cicadas who emerge from the ground in noisy broods every thirteen or seventeen years. Step right up and meet these delightful, unbelievable, and deliciously horrific animals, including: The endearing: same-sex albatross mothers who raise chicks together tarantulas who keep frogs as pets zebra finches who sing to their eggs to warn them of hot weather The ruthless: flukes who manipulate their host into getting eaten by a final host horned lizards who squirt blood through their eyes to distract predators southern grasshopper mice who harness scorpion venom as a painkiller And the just plain weird: antechinuses who mate themselves to death pearlfish who live, fight, and mate in sea cucumber butts immortal jellyfish who reverse their aging process when stressed Funny, entertaining, and illuminating, The Modern Bestiary is a book for anyone who wants to become more familiar with the natural world and all its astounding creatures.
Author : Lewis I. Held, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782899
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book How the Snake Lost its Legs written by Lewis I. Held, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the zebra really get its stripes, and the giraffe its long neck? What is the science behind camel humps, leopard spots, and other animal oddities? Such questions have fascinated us for centuries, but the expanding field of evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology) is now providing, for the first time, a wealth of insights and answers. Taking inspiration from Kipling's 'Just So Stories', this book weaves emerging insights from evo-devo into a narrative that provides startling explanations for the origin and evolution of traits across the animal kingdom. Held's unique and engaging style makes this narrative both enlightening and entertaining, guiding students and researchers through even complex concepts and encouraging a fuller understanding of the latest developments in the field. The first five chapters cover the first bilaterally symmetric animals, flies, butterflies, snakes, and cheetahs. A final chapter surveys recent results about a menagerie of other animals.
Author : Marie Angel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (277 download)
Download or read book A Bestiary written by Marie Angel and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann VanderMeer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613471333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Bestiary written by Ann VanderMeer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern bestiary of made-up fantastical creatures organized from A to Z, along with an ampersand and an invisible letter, featuring some of the best and most respected fantasists from around the world, including Karen Lord, Dexter Palmer, Brian Evenson, China Mieville, Felix Gilman, Catherynne M. Valente, Rikki Ducornet, and Karin Lowachee.
Author : Nicholas Christopher
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0440337046
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Bestiary written by Nicholas Christopher and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “a writer of remarkable gifts,” “Borges with emotional weight, comes a tale that is at once a fantastical historical mystery, a haunting love story, and a glimpse into the uncanny—the quest for a long-lost book detailing the animals left off Noah’s Ark. Xeno Atlas grows up in the Bronx, his Sicilian grandmother’s strange stories of animal spirits his only escape from the legacy of his mother’s early death and his stern father’s long absences as a common seaman. Shunted off to an isolated boarding school, with his father’s activities abroad and the source of his newfound wealth grown increasingly mysterious, Xeno turns his early fascination with animals into a personal obsession: his search for the Caravan Bestiary. This medieval text, lost for eight hundred years, supposedly details the animals not granted passage on the Ark—griffins, hippogriffs, manticores, and basilisks—the vanished remnants of a lost world sometimes glimpsed in the shadowy recesses of our own. Xeno’s quest takes him from the tenements of New York to the jungles of Vietnam to the ancient libraries of Europe—but it is only by riddling out his own family secrets that he can hope to find what he is looking for. A story of panoramic scope and intellectual suspense, The Bestiary is ultimately a tale of heartbreak and redemption.
Author : William O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440325359
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Dracopedia The Bestiary written by William O'Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash the Beasts! For millennia historians, artists and scientists have chronicled their ideas and discoveries of mythological and magical monsters in encyclopedias known as bestiaries. From Asia to America, Japan to the jungles of South Africa, the vast menagerie of exotic and legendary creatures has populated the imaginations of all cultures for centuries. Beautifully illustrated and fantastically detailed, Dracopedia: The Bestiary is a modern, but no less unsettling reimagining of the ancient version. It is an A-to-Z artist's guide to animals of the legendary world. Some, like the griffin and yeti, may be familiar to you. Others--like the enigmatic questing beast and ferocious manticore--may seem new and strange. Some may even haunt your dreams. Inside the bestiary, you will find: • Secrets of each animal's evolution--origins, habitat, anatomy, diet and more. • Fantastic illustrations created using pencil sketches and digital coloring. • Four-stage demonstrations taking you from concept and design to under-painting and finishing details. By drawing on the forms and features of more pedestrian animals, you'll learn how to give shape to the bizarre creatures that roam the depths of your imagination, adding to the bestiary of the ages.
Author : Tony Allan
Publisher : Duncan Baird
ISBN 13 : 9781844834846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Mythic Bestiary written by Tony Allan and published by Duncan Baird. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains illustrated entries to describe mythological and fantastical creatures from around the world that are organized by habitat; and includes creatures found in fiction such as "Batman," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and others. This guide gives not only a taxonomy of size, appearance, habitat, and powers, but also provides descriptions of the cultures that produced them.
Author : Caspar Henderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604484X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Book of Barely Imagined Beings written by Caspar Henderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Caspar Henderson takes us on an eye-opening tour of real animals that no sane human could ever have invented.” —Frans de Waal, New York Times–bestselling author With The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Caspar Henderson offers readers a fascinating, beautifully produced modern-day menagerie. But whereas medieval bestiaries were often based on folklore and myth, the creatures that abound in Henderson’s book—from the axolotl to the zebrafish—are, with one exception, very much with us, albeit sometimes in depleted numbers. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings transports readers to a world of real creatures that seem as if they should be made up—that are somehow more astonishing than anything we might have imagined. The yeti crab, for example, uses its furry claws to farm the bacteria on which it feeds. The waterbear, meanwhile, is among nature’s “extreme survivors,” able to withstand a week unprotected in outer space. These and other strange and surprising species invite readers to reflect on what we value—or fail to value—and what we might change. A powerful combination of wit, cutting-edge natural history, and philosophical meditation, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is an infectious and inspiring celebration of the sheer ingenuity and variety of life in a time of crisis and change. “The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is one that Pliny would have envied, Darwin applauded, and Borges relished . . . In these days of doom and gloom, I can think of nothing more rejoicing than Caspar Henderson’s magical book.” —Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading “Magnificent, bravura, beautiful and astoundingly interesting.” —The Sunday Times “Spell-binding, brilliantly executed, extraordinary.” —The Guardian
Author : Judy Young
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1585365939
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Hidden Bestiary of Marvelous, Mysterious, and (Maybe Even) Magical Creatures written by Judy Young and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorer Basil Bernard Barnswhitten (B.B.B.) has a list of creatures he needs to verify for an important report so he visits the Finchhaven Museum of Extraordinary Curiosities, Oddities & Improbabilities. But he finds that one of the glass exhibit cases is damaged - something appears to be missing. Or did it escape? To complete his report, B.B.B. travels around the world to track down each creature on his list, all the while asking the same three questions: Is it alive? Is it extinct? Did it ever exist? By deciphering the clues in his journal, young explorers can accompany B.B.B. as he tries to locate each mysterious creature. Finding them won't be easy; lushly detailed scenes serve not only as camouflage but also as habitats to other strange and mysterious marvels. In addition to writing children's books, Judy Young teaches poetry writing workshops for children and educators across the country. Her other books with Sleeping Bear Press include the popular R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet and The Lucky Star. Judy lives near Springfield, Missouri. Laura Francesca Filippucci was born in Milan, Italy, where she graduated in Illustration at the Istituto Europeo di Design. She later specialized in Children's Book Illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York. She lives in Milan with her family.
Author : Marianne Boruch
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322463
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Bestiary Dark written by Marianne Boruch and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the world finite? Through place and time and the great expanse of Australia, Marianne Boruch ponders this, aided not just by wallabies and platypus, kangaroos and wombats, but by a cheeky Archangel who wanders in and out of her poems. The pertinent wisdom of an Indigenous Elder is here too, along with the continuing presence of Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist and historian who in 77 CE posed the question Boruch considers. Written following Boruch’s Fulbright in Australia, and on the heels of the devastating fires that began after her departure, Bestiary Darkis filled with strange and sweet details, beauty, and impending doom—the drought, fires, and floods that have grown unspeakable in scale. These poems face the ancient, unsettling relationship of humans and the natural world—the looming effect we’ve wrought on wildlife—and what solace and repair our learning even a little might mean.
Author : Ann Rea
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134805659
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Middlebrow Wodehouse written by Ann Rea and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, attending to his self-conscious relationship to the literary marketplace and his role in moving musical comedy away from vaudeville’s lowbrow associations towards the sophistication of the Wodehouse style. The focus on the middlebrow creates a critical context for serious critical consideration of Wodehouse’s linguistic playfulness and his depictions of social class within England. The contributors explore Wodehouse’s fiction and libretti in reference to philosophy, depictions of masculinity, World War I Britain, the periodical market, ideas of Englishness, and cultural phenomena such as men’s fashion, food culture, and popular songwriting. Taken together, the essays draw attention to the arbitrary divide between high- and middlebrow culture and make a case for Wodehouse as a writer whose games with language are in keeping with modernist experimentation with artistic expression.
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ISBN 13 : 9781560977681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Beasts! written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Cesare
Publisher : Insight Editions
ISBN 13 : 1683838211
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (838 download)
Download or read book The Dark Crystal Bestiary written by Adam Cesare and published by Insight Editions. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the wild and wonderful creatures of Thra in this guide to the flora and fauna of the Dark Crystal universe featuring remarkable original illustrations. In a world where rocks talk and trees dispense wisdom from across the ages, anything is possible. The Dark Crystal Bestiary is a comprehensive volume that catalogs the many lifeforms of Thra’s unique ecosystem. Drawing from all aspects of the Dark Crystal saga’s universe, this book is visually dazzling and filled with enthralling information about all of Thra’s lifeforms, making it the definitive guide to a world of wonders. • Own the most comprehensive guide to the Dark Crystal universe: This book showcases fauna from all corners of Thra, from the vile Skeksis and their noble counterparts, the Mystics, to a whole cornucopia of amazing creatures and critters, including Landstriders, Garthim, Peeper Beetles, Fizzgigs, Pluff’m, and many more fan favorites. • Over 200 fantasy illustrations: Featuring all-new illustrations by Iris Compiet, a protégé of the original Dark Crystal concept artist, Brian Froud, this book will show you the world of Thra as you’ve never seen it before. • Learn about the world of Thra: The Dark Crystal Bestiary is packed with lore, drawing information from the original film, the hit Netflix show The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, comic books, and novels. • An epic addition to your home library: Great for fantasy lovers, The Dark Crystal Bestiary will be a perfect addition to your bookshelf or coffee table.
