Please click button to get the element encyclopedia of magical creatures book now. There were so many mysteries, so many fundamental, unanswered questions. Buy, rent or sell. Education WorldBook Center. Please click button to get encyclopedia of legendary creatures book now. Searching for Ghost Aliens Bigfoot Creatures Provides an illustrated look at dragons, griffins, werewolves, serpent monsters, sirens, mermaids, and other mythical creatures of land, sea, and air and includes text with legends from around the world.
From the enchanting to the mischievous to the downright terrifying, the creatures in this book inhabit the air, the underworld, far-off mountain-tops, and ancient cities; they are fantastical beings that haunt our dreams and challenge us to disprove their existence.
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This site is like a library, you could find million book here by using search box in the widget. Book Info: Sorry! I also find myself asking just how did the author choose the literary works to represent. As a science fiction and fantasy reader I can think of very many things that never were that were not and could not be included.
To do so would have meant a multi-volume encyclopedia that would have filled a large library by itself. If the criterion was that the literary work be a recognized classic there was still a lot of classics left out. Then, even if all the literary references were to be accepted as fitting in, there was another entry that even more glaringly seemed out of place.
It was a real estate scam. Yes, people were sold real estate and when they showed up to claim their newly purchased property it turned out that it did not exist. For one thing, I ask just how did the author pick out that one scam out of the many scams that have been perpetrated over the years? Then I ask just what place does that have in a book about folklore and even imaginary places and creatures from literature?
It is not like the entire book is unfocused. Even though the legends and myths were highly varied the topic was still legends and myths. However, these insertions of articles about things that were not legends and myths was just frequent enough to be irritating. Oct 14, Julie Fredette rated it really liked it. Oct 26, Feamelwen rated it it was amazing. One of those astounding moments when you find, once again, a book from your childhood, breathing in the memories of the text : heavily trunkated, heavily edited, translated from english.
It was this book. I read when I was seven, in first grade. Got it as a gift after winning some price at school in a drawing contest no idea how I managed to win a drawing contest. I remember that the imaginary places entries were what amazed me the most. In those years, arthurian legend, dark spells, undersea ki One of those astounding moments when you find, once again, a book from your childhood, breathing in the memories of the text : heavily trunkated, heavily edited, translated from english.
In those years, arthurian legend, dark spells, undersea kingdoms, headless monsters all seemed to exist somewhere, a place I could think of while shivering in delight. Oh how the world has shrunk. Mar 02, Crystal rated it it was amazing. Spooky and interesting book One of my personal favorites!
Claim to fame: A copy of one of these books sits amongst the cursed objects in Demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren's collection in their basement. I'm unsure if it is the book's message or the individual hard copy which was cursed? Has anyone else heard that this book might be haunted? Sep 23, Upstairskey rated it really liked it. I have had this book my whole 32 years to date. Hard cover with dust jacket. However my edition is titled Out of this World.
Have reread it many many times throughout the decades and love the illustrations. I have now added to my read shelf here on the ol' GR I have had this book my whole 32 years to date.
I have now added to my read shelf here on the ol' GR Aug 08, Garrett Hamblin rated it really liked it. Interesting read with great illustrations.. I like the way that it is divided into mythological areas. Oct 13, Florence Knockwood Morris rated it it was amazing. I love this, book it is inspiring and fascinating, to read and share with oters who are interested in mythology or simply want to read up on there favourite mythological beings. Dec 30, Neil Highley rated it it was amazing. Great tome to have around for inspiration.
Nov 30, Duncan rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: any reader and writer of fantasy. Thirty years ago give or take a year my best friend in grade school brought a copy of this book for me to look at. Twenty years ago give or take a few years I paid my friend a visit at his university, and spent a morning leafing through his own personal copy of the book, looking again at the entries on gremlins and vampires, Frankenstein and his monster, werewolves and witches, King Arthur and Camelot, and those islands visited by the likes of Lemuel Gulliver and Sindbad the Sailor.
When I w Thirty years ago give or take a year my best friend in grade school brought a copy of this book for me to look at. When I went back home, I eventually special ordered my own copy from Super Crown.
At first blush, it is not dissimilar to other books wherein you can read up on the gods and beasts of myth and folklore, mysterious lands in the remote corners of the map, and other such things. But it's Page's prose that adds a touch more to the subject matter, treating these topics as if they are, in fact, real.
Positing that Treasure Island isn't that far from the Carolinas. Hoping that the Brobdignagians haven't discovered gunpowder. Hinting at what sort of leather Satan's briefcase is fashioned from. I have two minor quibbles with the Encyclopedia: 1. The author limited entries to myth, folklore, and literary creations.
Which means there is nothing from film. There is an entry on gremlins, yes, but these were the creation of Roald Dahl; the Encyclopedia adds them to the family tree of leprechauns, elves, gnomes, goblins, and other mischievous "little people".
On the other hand, the illustration accompanying the entry on a certain vampire count looks a great deal like the film actor best known for portraying him. The Bibliography is extensive and informative, but there is one entry that continues to bug me because I cannot place its origin. In the section on "Things of Magic, Science, and Invention", there is the entry about "Anonyma", where a scientist brings the disembodied head of an executed criminal back to life.
Predictably, it ends badly for all concerned. It seems like a variation on the story of Frankenstein, but his entry is a little further along in the book. My guess is that it's something the author himself came up with, since some of the sources listed in the Bibliography are books by he and his illustrator, like The Voyage of the Poppykettle. I've had my copy of The Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were for over twenty years now, and still look into it every so often, alongside The Flight of Dragons and the aforementioned Dictionary of Imaginary Places.
This is an absolute must-have for any fantasist's library. Feb 13, Silvia rated it liked it. It's been my introduction to fantasy and horror when I was a teenager, scared the hell out of me sometimes. Countless hours of browsing through the entries of this book, it's a great inspiration for RPG as well. The pictures are beautiful but feel a bit dated nowadays.
There are some pictures in this book that still give me the creeps, like the troll picture, and some that I love to this day, like the picture of the mermaid. Good place to start if you're interested in folklore and mythology.
Dec 14, Nomad rated it it was amazing Shelves: fantasy-art. This was hands down my favorite library book when I was younger. I would sit in William Hall library in the back stacks and lounge in a windowsill with this book. It was the best, pure escapism that my teenage self could have asked for.
I can remember this book so clearly that I can remember what it felt like in my hands. It's almost emotional how attached I am to the memory of it.
I left Rhode Island a long time ago and have lived in Southern California for 15 years. But who I am and how I was s This was hands down my favorite library book when I was younger.
But who I am and how I was shaped had a lot to do with New England and spending so much time in this public library. When I bought this book a few months ago, without the crinkly library platic overshield it wasn't quite the same, but regradless opening it made me nearly smell the same smells as I used to in the that windowsill.
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