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In the north-east of England, a shadowy cult is rumoured to have sacrificed human victims to a dragon-god well into the 20th century.
In New Guinea, giant lizards with huge teeth and claws kill dozens of villagers and send the natives into a panic.
In the Gambia, an enraged dragon smashes a bridge, tipping people to their doom.
These all sound like the scripts for horror films or novels, but they are all alleged to have actually happened - and furthermore, well within living memory. From our earliest childhood, we are taught that dragons are imaginary beasts; the stuff of myths and legends, yet these most ancient of monsters are still being reported from all corners of the globe in this, the age of reason. Could the dragon legends have a basis in fact?
Richard Freeman, cryptozoologist, author, explorer, adventurer, and Zoological Director of the world’s largest mystery animal research organisation, follows this uber-monster right across the globe, from prehistory to the present day. He tracks it from the steamy jungles of the Congo, to the desolate lakes of eastern Siberia.
The dragon rears its scaly head in every culture on Earth; from the Indians to the Australian Aborigines, and from the Vikings to the Pygmies. The inescapable conclusion is that there are very real beasts at the core of these fantastic stories.
The dragon has its teeth and claws deep into the collective psyche of mankind, and it’s not about to let go. Our most ancient fear still stalks the earth today. Beware. This is no fairytale! When your parents told you that there were no such things as dragons, they lied!
About the Author
In 1996 he took a degree in zoology at Leeds university and after graduation moved to Exeter to work full time as the Zoological Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, the UK`s only cryptozoological organisation. He has hunted giant snakes in Thailand, apemen in Sumatra, lake monsters in the UK, and death worms in Mongolia.
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In fact this is really a dual book, it is a textbook with a good index, where if one was visiting say The Gambia or Thailand one could look up what the local dragon legend was, but it is also a good read.Everytime that I have looked something up I have found what I wanted and then finished the chapter.
I would advise any serious herpetologist or explorer to read it urgently -it will broaden your mind and open up possibilities that modern academic training tends to suppress.Just having read it will improve your report writing. To Folk-lorists if you don't read it you will have missed what may be the most important text of decade.
Chris. M. Moiser
No stone goes unturned here as Freeman goes on a quest to far away exotic lands, down into inky black waters, and through many a steamy jungle to find if dragons, of a flesh and blood nature actually existed. The idea of dragons goes way beyond the fantastic tales of fire-breathing, leather winged beasts, and Richard is a dab hand at analysing some classic stories, from Scotland's Loch Ness to obscure confrontations with possible prehistoric survivors. All manner of scaly horrors are highlighted, bringing fiction into reality, examining archetypes, and detailing modern beliefs and encounters.
At almost 300 pages, 'Dragons: More Than A Myth ?' is a vital book for cryptozoology, and will interest anyone who has an eye for dinosaurs, mythology, and dragon slaying!
Well, it aint necessarily so. Richard Freeman is a cryptozoologist of international reputation and stature who is probably the world’s greatest expert on dragon lore. For acolytes of winged fire-breathers this book is a must-have. Freeman takes a clinical look at the whole subject of dragons; dragons through history, dragons throughout the world’s cultures and dragons – whatever they may be – in our current era.
The fact is that there are numerous instances of individuals who have been killed or severely injured by zoologically unclassified creatures that, physiologically and temperamentally, match up to the stereotypical image of the dragon or something very similar to it.
I’ve read numerous books on cryptozoology. A disturbing number leave the reader as baffled at the end as they were when they first opened the front cover. Not so with Freeman’s work. It is comprehensive, well written and thought – provoking. It also suggests four possible explanations for the dragon phenomenon. None of them, armchair cryptozoologists will be glad to know, involve the usual clap-trap about hallucinations and hoaxes. Oh, there are hallucinators and hoaxers out there to be sure, but they cannot account for the wealth of evidence put forward by Freeman that there is more – a lot more – to the dragon phenomenon than meets the eye.
Not to be missed.
Extensively researched and very well written, this is the first proper scientific research into dragons in... Read more
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