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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