Bernard Heuvelmans

Kraken and The Colossal Octopus

• Broschiertes Buch

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First published in 2003. From Part One: 'Our ignorance of the marine world is much greater still. It is such that I do not hesitate to claim that, in the ocean, everything is still possible! Faced with the immensity of Neptune's realm, a certain degree of gullibility is preferable to blind incredulity. If it was claimed tomorrow that a real mermaid had been captured - not just an ugly manatee, but a creature boasting Marilyn Monroe's bust and the tail of a coelacanth - the attitude of the zoologist who wished to see it would be much more scientifically justifiable that that of his colleague who would merely shrug the news away. The sea covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe, but our ships cross it only along rather narrow and fixed paths.' This book looks at the science behind the stories.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9781138992955
• ISBN-10: 113899295X
• Artikelnr.: 44734032

Autorenporträt

Dr Bernard Heuvelmans, Zoologist

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE HERE, EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 1. Below the Wavy Curtain PART TWO
ANIMALS WITH FEET ON THEIR HEAD Classification of The Cephalopods 2 . On
the aggressivity of the Octopus, in Literature and in the Oceans 3. A
Family Album of Cephalopods PART THREE THE FAMILY TREE OF THE FEARSOME
KRAKEN 4. Giant Polyps of Antiquity 5 . The Medieval Fable of the
Island-Beast 6. Science looks at the Kraken PART FOUR THE COMPLETE STORY OF
THE SUPREME SQUID 7. The First Pieces of Evidence 8. Pierre Denys de
Montfort, Outlawed Malacologist 9. The Monster is Identified 10. The
Inadmissible Squid of the Alecton 11. Architeuthis Galore PART FIVE THE
SHADOW SIDE 12. Final Uncertainties 13. The Incomplete Story o f the
Colossal Octopus