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372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)

The History of Literature

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The Penguin Book of Dragons

Travellers to south asia would have seen large river reptiles like that, and had to make some judgments about what they were. For him, it was just a shorthand for, oh, these re know, these must be,. These must be dragons, s and soth. But one of the things i enjoyed about your book is that it also includes some examples of these early scientific explanations or or thoughtful analysis by pliny the elder we talked about. There are some others, like edward topsail. All will give you power if you also turned gold back to us.

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