The Monstrumologist читать онлайн

Скачать книгу The Monstrumologist

6lib.ru - Электронная Библиотека
Название книги: The Monstrumologist
Автор(ы): Rick Yancey
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Monstrumologist-228821.html

The first book in the Monstrumologist series, 2009To Sandymon•strum•ol•o•gy n.1: the study of life forms generally malevolent to humans and not recognized by science as actual organisms, specifically those considered products of myth and folklore2: the act of hunting such creaturesThe Androphagi [Anthropophagi] have the most savage manners of all. They neither acknowledge any rule of right nor observe any customary law… [They] have a language all their own, and alone of all these nations they are man-eaters.– Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus (440 B.C.) It is said that the Blemmyae have no heads and that their mouth and eyes are put in their chests.– Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historiae (75 A.D.)… another island, midway, live people of stature and ugly nature, which have no head and their eyes on the back and mouth, crooked as a horseshoe, in the midst of the breasts. On another island, there are many people without heads, and which has the eyes and head in the back.– Wonders of the World (1356)Gaora
1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 489 490
Навигация с клавиатуры: следующая страница - или пробел, предыдущая -
Тёмный фон Светлый фон

Загрузка

Загрузка ...