The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn
Subtitle: an excursion into romantic zoology.
Edition: New ed., completely rev. and considerably enl.
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Animals -- Folklore; Animals, Mythical; Lungfishes
First sentence: Zoology, the science of animals, is, of course, very old.
Notes: First pub. in 1941 under title: The lungfish and the unicorn.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Borderlines of Zoology; title: Duration and Order of Geologic Periods; title: The Legend of the Unicorn; title: "There Were Giants in Those Days"; title: "...And Dragons Living in Caves"; title: Basilisk and Jenny Haniver; title: The Vegetable Animals; title: The Story of the Kraken; title: The Great Unknown of the Seas; title: Rumors and Shadows; title: The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate; title: Urus, Wisent and Bison; title: The Almost Unknown Wild Horse; title: The Saga of the Geirfugl; title: The Curious Case of the Giant Sloth; title: As Dead as the Dodo; title: Limulus and Latimeria; title: A Century of Platypus; title: The Lungfish That Made History; title: New Zealand Interlude; title: Two-Thumbed Teddybear; title: The Origin of the Mammal; title: African Rhapsody; title: Index