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Author: Henry Lee Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105938956 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 251
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Henry Lee's Sea Monsters Unmasked is a classic volume in the skeptical canon, casting a critical gaze on the myths and legends of the sea, including the Kraken, the sea-serpent, mermaids, and more. Lee's investigations into the reality behind these myths was more than a century ahead of its time. This edition is an unabridged republication in one volume of the editions of Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained published by William Clowes and Sons, Limited in 1883.
Author: Henry Lee Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105938956 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 251
Book Description
Henry Lee's Sea Monsters Unmasked is a classic volume in the skeptical canon, casting a critical gaze on the myths and legends of the sea, including the Kraken, the sea-serpent, mermaids, and more. Lee's investigations into the reality behind these myths was more than a century ahead of its time. This edition is an unabridged republication in one volume of the editions of Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained published by William Clowes and Sons, Limited in 1883.
Author: Henry Lee Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781517569136 Category : Languages : en Pages : 194
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* 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.
Author: Henry Lee Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
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"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.
Author: Henry Lee Publisher: ISBN: 9781616409364 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 138
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Sea Fables Explained was published, along with its counterpart, Sea Monsters Unmasked by aquarium director Henry Lee for the Fisheries Exhibition of 1883. Sea Fables Explained covers a variety of sea creatures, but of special interest to cryptozoologists is Lee's treatment of Mermaids, Mermen, and Merbeings in general. 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 Monsters Unmasked, which deals with the Kraken and the Sea Serpent, to round out their knowledge of underwater species. 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.
Author: Henry Lee Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230371948 Category : Languages : en Pages : 28
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... collecting evidence relating to the "great beasts " living in "the great and wide sea," was influenced, as he tells us, by "a desire to extend the popular knowledge of the glorious works of a beneficent Creator." He gave too much credence to contemporary narratives and old traditions of floating islands and sea monsters, and to the superstitious beliefs and exaggerated statements of ignorant fishermen: but if those who ridicule him had lived in his day and amongst his people, they would probably have done the same; for even Linnaeus was led to believe in the Kraken, and catalogued it in the first edition of his ' Systema Naturae, ' as 'Sepia Microcosmos.' He seems to have afterwards had cause to discredit his information respecting it, for he omitted it in the next edition. The Norwegian bishop was a conscientious and painstaking investigator, and the tone of his writings is neither that of an intentional deceiver nor of an incautious dupe. He diligently endeavoured to separate the truth from the cloud of error and fiction by which it was obscured; and in this he was to a great extent successful, for he correctly identifies, from the vague and perplexing descriptions submitted to him, the animal whose habits and structure had given rise to so many terror-laden narratives and extravagant traditions. The following are some of his remarks on the subject of this gigantic and ill-defined animal. Although I have greatly abbreviated them, I have thought it right to quote them at considerable length, that the modest and candid spirit in which they were written may be understood;* "Amongst the many things," he says, "which are in the ocean, and concealed from our eyes, or only presented to our view for a few minutes, is the Kraken. This creature...
Author: Henry Lee Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781440064159 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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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.
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