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Sto caricando le informazioni... Dragons: A Natural History (1995)di Karl Shuker
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Dragons: A Natural History dives into how these beasts have been depicted and used in iconography throughout history, as well as including some famous dragon-centric legends told around the world (Maud & the Wyvern, Fafnir, St. George Vs the Dragon, and more). I got this book thinking 'history' meant more describing the various species of dragon and chronicling the cultural appearances of the general creature itself, but this book seems to have more re-tellings of old legends than documenting the creature's history itself. Although 'Natural History' is in the title, I suppose I was expecting something a little differently. There are few pages that go into detail concerning dragon's histories outside of the telling of legends.That aside, this book is a fine addition to any dragon lover's library. ( ) This book gets excellent reviews, but the information is unfortunately not accurate. For example, an item in the Weltmuseum Wien, the famous early sixteenth-century Aztec ceremonial feather mosaic shield (catalog number MVM Inv. Nr. 43,380) is pictured in detail (p.82-83] stating "Aztekenkönige tragen feierliche Schutzschilde, die mit Motiven - häufig Drachen aus Federn wie etwa dieser - geschmückt waren". [Aztec kings carried ceremonial protective shields - which depicted motives, often dragons made of feathers, like this one]. Unfortunately this represents a cayote not a dragon and has absolutely nothing to do with Qzetzalcoatl (the title of the chapter where it is found). For the picture credits, only the Werner Forman Archive is listed for this object, not the museum where it resides. I can only assume that the rest of the book is full of similar mistakes. For infomation on Dragons it is better to look up the individual "entries" in Wikipedia! As the author of this book, which is internationally renowned as a sumptuously illustrated volume containing full-colour paintings by some of the world's greatest artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, Fuseli, Uccello, and Arthur Rackham to mention but a few, I am amazed by a previous reviewer's extraordinaey claim that this book's illustrations are poor! How anyone can rate as poor the works of art by such geniuses as those noted above is incomprehensible, and I felt it necessary to correct what I consider to be an outrageous slur on my book without further delay. Dr Karl P.N. Shuker nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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More than 100 spectacular illustrations introduce more than thirty dragons, each accompanied by engaging accounts of their origins, habitats, behavior, and their confrontations with mankind. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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