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1959 book by Willy Ley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exotic Zoology is a 1959 cryptozoological book[1] by Willy Ley, a science writer and space advocate. The illustrator of the book is Olga Ley.[2]
Author | Willy Ley |
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Illustrator | Olga Ley |
Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1959 |
ISBN | 0-517-62545-8 |
LC Class | 59-8356 |
Ley had written a number of books containing scientific oddities; Exotic Zoology collects the cryptozoological matter from those books.[3] Throughout the book he shows examples of organisms that were rumored to exist, or were thought to be impossible, that were shown to be real; and others that were accepted as fact, that were discovered to have never existed: "He speculates about dragons and sea serpents, wingless birds and Abominable Snowmen."[4] The book, in its description of (fictional) peoples and creatures, has been compared to John Mandeville's Travels.[5] Some of the claims have been criticized or ridiculed, for instance the statement that giant squids had left scars on whales of two feet in diameter.[6][7]
Exotic Zoology was not reviewed in many academic journals. An exception was a review in the Science journal, in 1959.[8]
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