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In 1798, young French general Napoleon Bonaparte entered Egypt with
a veteran army and a specialist group of savants-scientists,
engineers, and artists-his aim being not just conquest, but the
rediscovery of the lost Nile kingdom. A year later, in the ruins of
an old fort in the small port of Rosetta, the savants made a
startling discovery: a large, flat stone, inscribed in Greek,
demotic Egyptian, and ancient hieroglyphics. This was the Rosetta
Stone, key to the two-thousand-year mystery of hieroglyphs, and to
Egypt itself. Two years later, French forces retreated before the
English and Ottoman armies, but would not give up the stone. Caught
between the opposing generals at the siege of Alexandria, British
special agents went in to find the Rosetta Stone, rescue the French
savants, and secure a fragile peace treaty. Discovery at Rosetta
uses French, Egyptian, and English eyewitness accounts to tell the
complete story of the discovery, decipherment, and capture of the
Rosetta Stone, investigating the rivalries and politics of the
time, and the fate of the stone today.
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.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology Yearbook is an annual collection of
papers and essays too long and detailed for publication in the CFZ
Journal, Animals & Men. With contributions from both well-known
researchers, and relative newcomers to the field, the Yearbook
provides a forum where new theories can be expounded, and work on
little-known cryptids discussed.
Issue 50 of the Journal of the Centre for Fortean Zoology; the
world's longest standing publication dealing with cryptozoology and
allied disciplines
The Centre for Fortean Zoology Yearbook is an annual collection of
papers and essays too long and detailed for publication in the CFZ
Journal, Animals & Men. With contributions from both well-known
researchers, and relative newcomers to the field, the Yearbook
provides a forum where new theories can be expounded, and work on
little-known cryptids discussed.
For 100 years, from the mid-19th Century, natural history was the
premier British hobby. Over the last 50 years it has declined in
popularity for a number of reasons, most notably that killing
living creatures for a hobby is quite rightly no longer seen as
ethical. With the technological advances of the 21st Century,
however, everything has changed. With a digital camera one can have
a butterfly collection for example, and with the advent of cheap
air travel, places once only accessible by the Gerald Durrells of
this world, can be visited by everybody. Suddenly, the amateur
naturalist can come into his, or her, own, and there has never been
a better time for people to get involved. Amateur naturalists
across the world are carrying out valuable research, and
participating in essential breeding programmes. If you are
interested, this magazine is for you.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology is the only professional,
scientific, and full-time organization in the world dedicated to
cryptozoology, the study of unknown animals. This volume contains
facsimile reprints of issues 16-20 of the world's only dedicated
cryptozoology magazine, "Animals & Men."
Since 1994, Animals & Men has been the world's premier
cryptozoological periodical. It is published by the Centre for
Fortean Zoology (CFZ) and covers all aspects of the study of
unknown animals.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology Yearbook is an annual collection of
papers and essays too long and detailed for publication in the CFZ
Journal, Animals & Men. With contributions from both well-known
researchers, and relative newcomers to the field, the Yearbook
provides a forum where new theories can be expounded, and work on
little-known cryptids discussed.
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