Sea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables Explained
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Reports of a great sea serpent, and old tales of the kraken, are examined here by Henry Lee, a naturalist formerly with the Brighton Aquarium. His argument rests on watching live squid in the aquarium tanks: they sometimes swim half out of the water, tail lifted and arms trailing, and Lee believed this explained many well-known serpent sightings.
The book was prepared for the International Fisheries Exhibition in London in 1883, and the frontispiece shows the serpent as first seen from H.M.S. Daedalus. The preface also credits Edward Newman and his magazine, the Zoologist, for gathering decades of sighting reports, and recalls a joke from Mark Twain.
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- Author
- Henry Lee
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 122
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online