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Author: Shirley Raye Redmond
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2011-04-27
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0737760109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders are taken on a journey to Australia's lore of the bunyip. This book describes its origin, menacing characteristics, and the monster's legacy in popular culture.
Author: Malcolm Smith
Publisher: Millennium Books (Au)
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781864290813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Holden
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780642107329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Holden enters the bunyips lair to reveal the fascinating literature, folklore and superstitions that have immortalised Australia's most enigmatic creature. Bunyips includes extracts from Australian stories about bunyips, featuring work by Edel Wignell, Rosa Campbell Praed, Catherine Stow, Dal Stivens and others.
Author: Malcolm Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's back! After 25 years, the comprehensive, fully documented exposition of Australian mystery animals - up-dated for all the developments which have taken place in the meantime.Unrecognized by science, bunyips, sea serpents, and yowies are declared to be myths, hoaxes, or misidentifications by unqualified witnesses with overactive imaginations. And yet . . .* The Colonial Museum once held a bunyip skull, and the animal continued to be reported by white settlers for a century and a half.* The navy was once called out to search Darwin Harbour for a sea serpent, and a team of scientists was flown onto a remote Tasmanian beach to investigate another monster.* Massive stock killings by "big cats" have sparked the interest of state parliaments.* A prominent politician was one of 20 witnesses to a giant ape in the Queensland bush.Whether you are a keen cryptozoologist or just have an interested, open mind, you will not be able to read this book without coming to the conclusion that Australia's hinterland and seas are the home of numerous large animals unknown to science.
Author: Shirley Raye Redmond
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2011-04-27
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0737759194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders are taken on a journey to Australia's lore of the bunyip. This book describes its origin, menacing characteristics, and the monster's legacy in popular culture.
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-10-05
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 0786491531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis. People passionately pursue these creatures--the name given to their field of study is cryptozoology. Coined in the 1950s, the term literally means the science of hidden animals. When the International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) was formed in 1982, the founders declared that the branch of science is also concerned with "the possible existence of known animals in areas where they are not supposed to occur (either now or in the past) as well as the unknown persistence of presumed extinct animals to the present time or to the recent past...what makes an animal of interest to cryptology is that it is unexpected." This reference work presents a "flesh and blood" view of cryptozoology. Here, 2,744 entries are listed, the majority of which each describe one specific creature or type of creature. Other entries cover 742 places where unnamed cryptids are said to appear; profiles of 77 groups and 112 individuals who have contributed to the field; descriptions of objects and events important to the subject; and essays on cryptotourism and hoaxes, for example. Appendices offer a timeline of zoological discoveries, annotated lists of movies and television series with cryptozoological themes, a list of crypto-fiction titles and a list of Internet websites devoted to cryptozoology.
Author: Frances Nagle
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1482448556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt seems incredible that a huge, hairy human-ape could live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest without anyone knowing its there for sure. However, theres still no real evidence for the existence of Bigfoot! Readers learn about the most famous Bigfoot sighting from 1967, which still hasnt been proved to be a hoax. Full-color images illustrate how many envision Bigfoot today, as well as similar cryptids found around the world, such as the Yeti. Accessible language paired with fascinating content about a modern monster draws in even unenthusiastic readers.
Author: David D. Gilmore
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012-05-26
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0812203224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role as adversaries to great heroes. But while heroes have been closely studied by mythologists, monsters have been neglected, even though they are equally important as pan-human symbols and reveal similar insights into ways the mind works. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures. Using colorful and absorbing evidence from virtually all times and places, Monsters is the first attempt by an anthropologist to delve into the mysterious, frightful abyss of mythical beasts and to interpret their role in the psyche and in society. After many hair-raising descriptions of monstrous beings in art, folktales, fantasy, literature, and community ritual, including such avatars as Dracula and Frankenstein, Hollywood ghouls, and extraterrestrials, Gilmore identifies many common denominators and proposes some novel interpretations. Monsters, according to Gilmore, are always enormous, man-eating, gratuitously violent, aggressive, sexually sadistic, and superhuman in power, combining our worst nightmares and our most urgent fantasies. We both abhor and worship our monsters: they are our gods as well as our demons. Gilmore argues that the immortal monster of the mind is a complex creation embodying virtually all of the inner conflicts that make us human. Far from being something alien, nonhuman, and outside us, our monsters are our deepest selves.
Author: George M. Eberhart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-12-17
Total Pages: 772
ISBN-13: 1576077640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive guide to cryptozoology—the quest to identify animals that have not been officially catalogued by science and to place these unknown animals into their proper zoological categories. In this fascinating two-volume encyclopedia, author George M. Eberhart provides a comprehensive catalog of nearly 1,000 cryptids—unknown animals usually reported through eyewitness accounts and not yet described by science. Cryptids are the stuff of folklore, hoaxes, and genuine scientific breakthroughs. There are 400 now-classified cryptids once considered either extinct or pure fantasy. The cryptozoologist's job is to strip away the myth, misidentification, and mystery—and separate fact from fiction. Mysterious Creatures covers everything from dinosaurs and the emala-ntouka, an elephant-killing dinosaur-like animal of central Africa, to searches for the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, and other cryptozoological hoaxes. Entries about specific animals include the derivation or meaning of each cryptid's name, its scientific name, variant names, a physical description, behavior, description of tracks, habitat, significant sightings, present status, and possible explanations. Illustrations and photographs accompany many entries. The book also includes resources and references for further information.
