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Cryptozoology: The History of Attempts to Discover and Study Legendary and Mytho
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*Includes pictures *Profiles some of the most sought after legendary creatures like the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents The Loch Ness Monster is the world-famous creature said to inhabit Loch Ness in rthern Scotland. The search for the monster has probably consumed more money, time, and newspaper space than attempts to prove the existence or otherwise of UFOs. - Peter D. Jeans, Seafaring Lore and Legend Mankind has always been fascinated with the hidden, the mysterious, and the unexplained. Every society has its tall tales and ghost stories, its odd legends and heroes. Also, every society has its stories of strange beasts, dangerous or benign, that live in the twilight world between the everyday and the legendary. Through most of our history we have been closely tied to nature, hunting in forests and having an intimate kwledge of the animals in our region. So-called primitive peoples were walking encyclopedias of the natural world, and yet most believed there were more creatures lurking in those woods than the ones they usually encountered. In modern times we have lost our ties to nature, but the belief in strange creatures continues as strong as ever. Indeed, the willingness to believe in exotic animals has been so widespread that some have made careers out of displaying oddities to the public at circuses, fairs, and museums. Perhaps the most torious individual to do this is P.T. Barnum, whose New York City museum was so popular in part because he was more than happy to invent items with which to fascinate the public, even if such item actually existed. His first example of this was the w famous Fiji mermaid. Barnum rented this oddity from a Boston rival, Moses Kimball, in 1842, but while the creature floating in the jar of formaldehyde was described as a mermaid, it was actually the body of a very young monkey with a fish tail sewn on over its legs. Barnum leased the item long term for $12.50 per week and then marketed it as having been caught by his friend Dr. J. Griffin, a pseudonym for Barnum's business associate Levi Lyman. For his part, Barnum saw thing wrong with what he was doing, justifying the hoaxes by saying they were just advertisements to draw attention...to the Museum. He added, I don't believe in duping the public, but I believe in first attracting and then pleasing them. Although cryptozoology is often scoffed at and widely considered a pseudoscience, one of the reasons it made men like P.T. Barnum rich and continues to fascinate people today is the fact that people realize they've only scratched the surface when it comes to identifying all the different forms of life on Earth. That makes the As Martin DelRio explained in The Loch Ness Monster, Could ... an undiscovered animal as large as the Loch Ness monster possibly exist? The answer is yes. Animals previously unkwn to science have been found more than once in the past hundred years. For instance, there's the megamouth shark (megachasma pelagios), a fifteen-foot-long creature weighing nearly a ton. The first specimen was discovered on November 15, 1976, when it was found entangled in the drag anchor of a U.S. Navy ship. The new creature wasn't described scientifically until 1983 ... The megamouth remains the only species in its genus, and the only genus in its order. Cryptozoology: The History of Attempts to Discover and Study Legendary and Mythological Creatures looks at the efforts to find the most legendary beasts ever concocted by men. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about cryptozoology like never before, in time at all.
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1530232597
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9781530232598
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Black & White Illustrations
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25/02/2016
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The Paranormal
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