The Flight of DragonsCombining fact with fantasy, science with romance, the author sets out to prove that dragons really did exist. Taking clues to the size and nature of these fantastical beasts of mythology and legend, Peter Dickinson presents a riveting thesis on how so great a creature as the dragon actually managed to fly. |
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... Britain 77 THE HERO WITH THE SWORD 90 Techniques of Dragon - slaying 93 THE DRAGON HOARD 102 Cave - paintings 105 DRAGON SPEECH 112 BEOWULF 124 Chinese Dragons 127 EVIDENCE FOR DRAGONS NTRODUCTION This book is about winged , fire - ...
... Britain 77 THE HERO WITH THE SWORD 90 Techniques of Dragon - slaying 93 THE DRAGON HOARD 102 Cave - paintings 105 DRAGON SPEECH 112 BEOWULF 124 Chinese Dragons 127 EVIDENCE FOR DRAGONS NTRODUCTION This book is about winged , fire - ...
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... dragon is loathsome , grisly , monstrous . For the poet and his audience it is no kind of whimsy or fantasy . In those warriors who sat round the meadhall ... Chinese Dragons Dragons in Eastern legends differ from Western dragons. 123.
... dragon is loathsome , grisly , monstrous . For the poet and his audience it is no kind of whimsy or fantasy . In those warriors who sat round the meadhall ... Chinese Dragons Dragons in Eastern legends differ from Western dragons. 123.
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Peter Dickinson. Chinese Dragons Dragons in Eastern legends differ from Western dragons in a number of ways . The most important are that they seldom breathe fire and they are benevolent , if hot - tempered . Sometimes they are said to ...
Peter Dickinson. Chinese Dragons Dragons in Eastern legends differ from Western dragons in a number of ways . The most important are that they seldom breathe fire and they are benevolent , if hot - tempered . Sometimes they are said to ...
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acid ancestors Anne McCaffrey answer armour artist attack beast became become Beowulf birds blood bone breathe fire C. S. Lewis cave Cave-paintings cavities chemical Chinese Chinese Dragons creature cycle detail dinosaurs DRAGON HOARD Dragon killed Dragon lived dragon-lore dragon-slaying dragon's body enemy evolution evolved extinct fact Fafnir feet female fiery flame FLIGHT of DRAGONS flight-cavities flying animals fossil memories gaze gold gold-nesting Grendel Grendel's mother head helm of terror hero Hreidmar huge human hydrogen J. R. R. Tolkien jewels Jordanus king lair Lambton Worm legend legs lift lighter-than-air lizard look male dragon mating-flight membrane metabolism monster mountains mythic nature night old bull overleaf PETER DICKINSON poet poison pool prey Pteranodon Regin Sigurd species spiked stare Stone Age story strange stranger survive talons tarn tend things Tolkien The Hobbit Ursula Le Guin villagers vulnerable weight weightless wings Worm young dragon Yuan Kien