Big, Bad Book of Beasts The World's Most Curious Creatures

Name: Big, Bad Book of Beasts The World's Most Curious Creatures
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ISBN: 9780062087454

ISBN-10: 0062087452

ISBN-13: 9780062087454

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Largo

List price: $22.99

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The first bestsellers ever published were medieval "bestiaries," encyclopedias that collected all of human knowledge and myths about animals. Eagles and lions lived in these pages next to imaginary beasts like griffins and sea monsters. For hundreds of years bestiaries rivaled only the bible as the most read books in the western world.Taking these original bestiaries as his inspiration, Michael Largo returns readers to that captivating wonder of animals we all had as children and looks at the beasts we created with our imaginations, as well as ones long gone. Michael Largo shares the Animal Kingdom's most fascinating secrets and reveals fact after astonishing—and often hilarious—fact about…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.65" wide x 8.98" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Michael Largo and his family live in Florida with a dog, a parrot, two turtles, a pair of canaries, and a tank of fish. The former editor of New York Poetry and the researcher and archivist for the film company Allied Artists, Michael is the award-winning author of four offbeat reference books and three novels.