The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century

Theodore H. White, T. H. White

Dover Publications

2010

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780486246093

A preeminent medievalist presents a wonderful catalog of real and fanciful beasts, including the manticore, griffin, phoenix, amphivius, jaculus, and many other exotic animals. White's witty, erudite commentary on scientific and historical aspects enhances this survey of proto-zoology on which science is based and pre-scientific perceptions of the earth's creatures. 128 black-and-white illustrations.