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372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)

The History of Literature

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The Topsail and Dragons Are All Over the World

Edward topsail was a polymath who lived in the early seventeenth century. He collected everything that he cod, including ancient and mediaeval dragon lore. A German jesuit called athanasius kircher takes a bit of a different approach. Kircher believed there were whole subsets of dragons that lived under ound. And i was particularly delighted to get these translations into the subterranean world because very few people have heard of this topic before.

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