Mythical Monsters

Charles Gould, geological surveyor of Tasmania, spent 400 pages and 93 engravings arguing that dragons, sea-serpents and unicorns are not inventions but memories — real animals, seen, feared, and distorted by time.

Table of Contents

Introduction

10 pages

List of Authors Cited

1 page

On Some Remarkable Animal Forms

3 pages

Extinction of Species

23 pages

Antiquity of Man

15 pages

The Deluge Not a Myth

12 pages

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And

19 pages

The Dragon

28 pages

The Chinese Dragon

10 pages

The Japanese Dragon

3 pages

Conclusion of Dragon Chapters

1 page

The Sea-Serpent

39 pages

The Unicorn

12 pages

The Phenix of the East

1 page

The Chinese Phenix

2 pages

Appendix I

22 pages

Appendix to the Chapter on the Sea-Serpent

1 page

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