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The great sea-serpent

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The great sea-serpent

Antoine Corneille Oudemans

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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

  1. 1THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. 5I. Literature on the Subject.
  6. 6II. Attempts to discredit the Sea-Serpent. Cheats and Hoaxes.
  7. 7III. Would-be Sea-Serpents.
  8. 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.
  9. 9I.
  10. 10“Questions.”
  11. 11II.
  12. 12V. The various explanations hitherto given.
  13. 13VI. Conclusions.
  14. 14A. Fables, Fictions, Exaggerations and Errors.
  15. 15B. Facts.
  16. 161. EXTERNAL CHARACTERS.
  17. 172. INTERNAL OR ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS.
  18. 183. COLOURS, INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS.

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