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| EXTRAORDINARY ANIMALS REVISITED | 
| Author: Karl Shuker
Creators: Jonathan Downes, Janet Bord
Publisher: cfz
Category: Book
List Price: $28.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 449184
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 328
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1905723172
Dewey Decimal Number: 590
EAN: 9781905723171
ASIN: 1905723172
Publication Date: August 6, 2007
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Product Description
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.
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Karl Shuker at his best September 24, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dr Shuker`s Extraordinary Animals Revisited is a must for those with an interest in natural history and cryptozoology. The Book is well researched, easy to read and is intellectually fascinating.
A Classic Revised and Improved! September 16, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Kudos to all involved in bringing this classic text back into print--and to Dr. Shuker for substantially updating it. Any reader interested in wildlife, animal anomalies, and/or cryptozoology will want a copy of this volume in his-or-her personal library. Worth twice the price, and then some.
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