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Adventures in unhistory : conjectures on the factual foundations of several ancient legends

Presents a compendium of magisterial examinations of mermaids, mandrakes, and mammoths; dragons, werewolves, and unicorns; the phoenix and the roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and, the secret of Hyperborea.
Print Book, English, 2006, ©1993
Tor, New York, 2006, ©1993
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780765307606, 076530760X
272404354
Where did Sindbad sail?
Who fired the phoenix?
An abundance of dragons
Who makes the mandrakes
The boy who cried werewolf
The great rough beast
Postscript on Prester John
The theft of the mulberry tree
The secret of Hyperborea
Heads I win, tails you lose
The spoor of the unicorn
What gave all those mammoths cold feet?
Bird thou wert, but art no more
The moon
The prevalence of mermaids
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
"Advance uncorrected proof"--Cover
Includes index