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The great sea-serpent
A. C. Oudemans
Sailors swore to it for centuries: a vast serpent rising from the deep. A. C. Oudemans takes the reports seriously, sorting hoaxes and would-be sightings from the genuinely puzzling, then arranging every credible account in order. Is it a survivor from an older sea? A methodical, open-minded hunt for one of the ocean's great mysteries. Judge the evidence yourself.
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35 chapters
- 1THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5I. Literature on the Subject.
- 6II. Attempts to discredit the Sea-Serpent. Cheats and Hoaxes.
- 7III. Would-be Sea-Serpents.
- 8IV. The various accounts and reports concerning observations of Sea-Serpents, chronologically arranged and thoroughly discussed; and criticisms of the papers written about the subject.
- 9I.
- 10“Questions.”
- 11II.
- 12V. The various explanations hitherto given.
- 13VI. Conclusions.
- 14A. Fables, Fictions, Exaggerations and Errors.
- 15B. Facts.
- 161. EXTERNAL CHARACTERS.
- 172. INTERNAL OR ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS.
- 183. COLOURS, INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS.
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