Heuvelmans

On The Track Of Unknown Animals

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1995. It will soon be forty years since the original edition of this work, Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées (1955), appeared in French. With this book, the great adventure of 'Cryptozoology', the science of hidden animals, began.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 716
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1227g
• ISBN-13: 9780710304988
• ISBN-10: 0710304986
• Artikelnr.: 22321284

Autorenporträt

Bernard Heuvelmans (Author), R. Garnett (Translated by)

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The great days of zoology are not done: there are lost worlds everywhere
Cuvier's rash dictum
survivors from the past. Part 2 The man-faced animals of South-East Asia
Nittaewo, the lost people of Ceylon
Orang-Pendek, the ape-man of Sumatra
the not so abominable snowman. Part 3 The living fossils of Oceania: the surrealist dinosaur of New guinea
the incredible Australian bunyips
the Queensland marsupial tiger
the moa, a fossil that may still thrive
waitoreke, the impossible New Zealand mammal. Part 4 Riddles of the green continent: the Patagonian giant sloth
the giant anaconda and other inland sea serpents
apes in green hell. Part 5 The giants of the far North: the mammoth of the Taiga. Part 6 The terrors of Africa: three large pygmies - the forest rhinoceros, the water elephant and the spotted lion
the Nandi bear
Mngwa, the strange one
the little hairy men
the dragon St. George did not kill
Kongamato, the last flying dragon. Part 7 The lesson of the Malagasy ghosts: Tratratratra, vorompatra, etcetera.