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Monsters of the sea

Author: Richard Ellis
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"The history, natural history, and mythology of the oceans' most fantastic creatures"--Cover.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Ellis, Richard, 1938-
Monsters of the sea.
New York : Knopf, 1994
(OCoLC)647257853
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Ellis
ISBN: 0679406395 9780679406396
OCLC Number: 29669349
Description: xiii, 429 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Contents: An introduction to sea monsters (p.1) --
The Loch Ness monster (p.17) --
Sea serpents (p.37) --
Mermaids and manatees (p.75) --
The Kraken (p.113) --
The biology of squid, giant and otherwise (p.165) --
Leviathan, or, the whale (p.191) --
Leviathan versus Kraken (p.235) --
The octopus as monster (p.255) --
Biology of the octopus (p.281) --
Blobs and globsters (p.301) --
The shark (p.323) --
The new mythology of monsters (p.359) --
Appendices (p.377).
Responsibility: Richard Ellis.
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