Author: Henry LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Sea Monsters Unmasked
Author: Henry LeeSea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables Explained
Author: Henry LeePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Sea Monsters Unmasked" was written by aquarium director Henry Lee for the 1883 Fisheries Exhibition, along with "Sea Fables Explained." Sea Monsters Unmasked delves deeply into the Kraken, or giant squid, as well as Sea Serpents. The book is packed with data and illustrations gleaned from news sources and eyewitness accounts of cryptozoological subjects. Readers will enjoy its companion piece, Sea Fables Explained, which discusses a variety of creatures, including Merpeople, to round out their knowledge of the underwater cryptozoo menagerie.
Sea Monsters Unmasked (Illustrated)
Author: Henry LeePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517569136
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
* This classic work is brought to new life with over 100 images to illustrate and enhance the readers' experience. Is the Loch Ness Monster real? What about those sea serpents sighted by countless sailors over the ages? How about mermaids? Naturalist Henry Lee gives you the history, the recorded sightings, and the likely explanations. Meet the fearsome creatures of the deep that qualify as sea monsters. And see rare photographs of the oarfish, a true-life sea serpent encountered by seafarers, curious scientists, and hapless beachcombers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts, etchings, and modern-day photographs.
Sea Monsters Unmasked
Author: Henry LeePublisher: Cosimo Incorporated
ISBN: 9781616409340
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Sea Monsters Unmasked was published, along with its counterpart, Sea Fables Explained by aquarium director Henry Lee for the Fisheries Exhibition of 1883. Sea Monsters Unmasked discusses in-depth both the Kraken, or giant squid, and Sea Serpents. As Loren Coleman notes in the introduction, the books are small in size, but filled with data and illustrations taken from news sources and eyewitness accounts of his cryptozoological subjects. Part of the Loren Coleman Presents series for Cosimo Classics, readers are sure to enjoy its partner piece, Sea Fables Explained, which discusses a variety of creatures, including Merpeople, to round out their knowledge of the underwater cryptozoo menagerie. HENRY LEE (1826-1888) was the naturalist and director of the Brighton Aquarium in England. As a great observer of the collection's underwater life, and wrote the Aquarium Notes for the visitors and authored several books on underwater life, including The Octopus (1874) and Sea Monsters Unmasked (1883), and Sea Fables Explained (1883). He was also a contributor to the magazine Land and Water. Lee died at age 62, after some years of ill-health, at Renton House, Brixton, on Halloween, October 31, 1888.
Sea Monsters Unmasked
Author: Sea Monsters Unmasked (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henry LeePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781440064159
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Excerpt from Sea Monsters Unmasked In treating of the so-called sea-serpent, I have been anticipated by many able writers. Mr. Gosse, in his delightful book, 'the Romance of Natural History, ' published in 1862, devoted a chapter to it and numerous articles concerning it have appeared in various papers and periodicals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
SEA MONSTERS UNMASKED
Author: HENRY. LEEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033984024
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained
Author: Henry W. LeePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512026764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
"Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained" from Henry W. Lee. Prominent British socialist (1865-1932).
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained
Author: H. W. LeePublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781506184043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"[...]that of the garden slug, which, having organs like those of the snail, as the octopus has organs like those of the shell-bearing argonaut, has no shell. The cuttles and squids may be compared to some of the sea-slugs, as Aplysia and Bullæa, and to some land-slugs, as Parmacella and Limax, which have an internal shell. The argonaut and the other families of the cephalopods do not come within the scope of this treatise; we will therefore confine our attention to the three above mentioned. Of the anatomy and homology of the Octopus, Sepia, and Calamary we need say no more than will suffice to show in what manner they resemble each other,[...]".
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