Extraordinary Animals Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extraordinary Animals Revisited write by Karl Shuker. This book was released on 2007. Extraordinary Animals Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This delightful book is the long-awaited, greatly-expanded new edition of one of Dr Karl Shuker's much-loved early volumes, Extraordinary Animals Worldwide. It is a fascinating celebration of what used to be called romantic natural history, examining a dazzling diversity of animal anomalies, creatures of cryptozoology, and all manner of other thought-provoking zoological revelations and continuing controversies down through the ages of wildlife discovery. Handsomely supplemented by a vista of enchanting Victorian engravings to evoke the spirit of the period from which the inspiration for this book is drawn, Extraordinary Animals Revisited offers an enthralling introduction to a veritable menagerie of truly astonishing beasts: From singing dogs to serpent kings, pseudo-plesiosaurs to quasi-octopuses, hounds with two noses and birds with four wings, the Sandwell Valleygator and New Mexico's medicine wolf, cobras that crow and snake gods that dance, giant solifugids and rodent colossi, devil-birds and devil-pigs, furry woodpeckers and marsupial hummingbirds, archangel feathers and the scales of the Eden serpent, scorpion-stones and elephant-pearls, tales of the peacock's tail, parachuting palm civets, missing megapodes, blue rhinoceroses, glutinous globsters, anomalous aardvarks, a platypus from Colorado, man-sized spiders from the Congo, de Loys's lost Venezuelan ape, Margate's marine elephant, a flying hedgehog called Tizzie-Wizzie, a mellifluous mollusc called Molly, India's once (and future?) pink-headed duck, the squeaking deathshead, the vanquished bird-god of New Caledonia, and much much more - all waiting to amaze and amuse, a pageant of natural and unnatural history.
Extraordinary Animals Worldwide
Extraordinary Animals Worldwide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extraordinary Animals Worldwide write by Karl Shuker. This book was released on 1991. Extraordinary Animals Worldwide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Hidden Powers of Animals
The Hidden Powers of Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Powers of Animals write by Karl Shuker. This book was released on 2001. The Hidden Powers of Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the amazing truths about animals and their sensitivities, skills, and strengths, from the bat's ability to catch insect prey in complete darkness to animals that cure their own ailments by using herbs in their habitats.
The Lost Ark
The Lost Ark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Ark write by Karl Shuker. This book was released on 1993. The Lost Ark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to be devoted to the spectacular zoological discoveries and equally amazing rediscoveries of the twentieth century - and it contains the only comprehensive collection of photographs of these species ever published. It is a fascinating and encouraging book that provides good reason for believing that our world still holds many more surprises in store.
WildLives
WildLives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook WildLives write by Ben Lerwill. This book was released on 2020-02-04. WildLives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the illustrator of Herstory (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018) comes a fascinating and touching book about fifty extraordinary animals that made human history! Discover these amazing true tales of wild and wonderful lives—animal lives, that is! We often read heroic stories of brave people who made their mark on history. But did you know there are some pretty courageous creatures in our world, too? This captivating collection gathers fifty heartwarming, surprising, and powerful true stories of animals around the world who displayed immense bravery, aided in groundbreaking discoveries, and showed true friendship. Featuring a range of animals—from heroes to helpers, adventurers to achievers, and many more—young readers will discover some of the most unforgettable animals of all time. Compelling and gorgeously illustrated, WildLives is the perfect introduction to some of the amazing animals whose wild lives have made history.
