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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Sea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables Explained
Henry Lee
234 pages~4 hr 40 min read13 chaptersFree this month
The great sea serpent, the mermaid, the Lernean hydra, and the spouting of whales, each dragged into daylight and explained. Henry Lee takes the ocean's oldest fables and shows the real creatures behind them, from the sailing nautilus to barnacle geese. Skeptical, witty, and full of natural history, it makes the sea stranger by making it true.
Includes read-aloud narration with live word highlighting.
Inside this book
13 chapters
- 1SEA MONSTERS UNMASKED
- 2PREFACE.
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4THE KRAKEN.
- 5THE GREAT SEA SERPENT.
- 6CONTENTS.
- 7LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 8THE MERMAID.
- 9THE LERNEAN HYDRA.
- 10SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.
- 11THE "SPOUTING" OF WHALES.
- 12THE "SAILING" OF THE NAUTILUS.
- 13BARNACLE GEESE—GOOSE BARNACLES.
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