Sea Fables Explained
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780766140547
Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Oceanography (seas); Sociology; Social Science; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Oceans & Seas; Nature
First sentence: NEXT to the pleasure which the earnest zoologist derives from study of the habits and structure of living animals, and his intelligent appreciation of their perfect adaptation to their modes of life, and the circumstances in which they are placed, is the interest he feels in eliminating fiction from truth, whilst comparing the fancies of the past with the facts of the present.