num_pages: 137
description: This thrilling book combines fact with fantasy, science with romance. In an elegant exposition Peter Dickinson, award-winning novelist, sets out to prove that dragons did exist. The mythology of dragons gives many surprisingly consistent clues as to the size and nature of the beasts. Peter Dickinson has woven these intriguing folktales and anecdotes into a riveting thesis on how so great a creature as the dragon actually managed to fly. His theory exactly ties in with reports on dragons' flight patterns, eating habits and family life. He reveals to us the dragon's special reasons for hoarding gold, their distinctive mating and evolutionary cycle, in a romantic yet well researched and wholly satisfying construction of the dragon's unique way of life.Wayne Anderson supports the substantial text with his own brilliant illustrations of real dragons, their landscapes, lairs, the maidens they threatened and the knights they vanquished. His glowing pictures bring these strange and complelling creatures and their distant worlds to vivid life. They integrate with the text in a flourish of pictorial fantasy.
language: English
title: The Flight of Dragons
titlecomplete: The Flight of Dragons
genres: Childrens, Mythology, Animals, Reference, Fiction, Dragons, Fantasy, Guides, Art, British Literature
ratings_count: 842
publisher: Pierrot Publishing Limited