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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF DRAGONS - SCOTT G BRUCE KAR...

Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons  which have
breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones A Penguin Classic The
most popular mythological creature in the human imagination  dragons have provoked fear and
fascination for their lethal venom and crushing coils  and as avatars of the Antichrist 
servants of Satan  couriers of the damned to Hell  portents of disaster  and harbingers of the
last days. Here are accounts spanning millennia and continents of these monsters that mark the
boundary between the known and the unknown  including: their origins in the deserts of Africa 
their struggles with their mortal enemies  elephants  in the jungles of South Asia  their fear
of lightning  the world's first dragon slayer  in an ancient collection of Sanskrit hymns  the
colossal sea monster Leviathan  the seven-headed great red dragon of the Book of Revelation 
the Loch Ness monster  the dragon in Beowulf  who inspired Smaug in Tolkien's The Hobbit  the
dragons in the prophecies of the wizard Merlin  a dragon saved from a centipede in Japan who
gifts his human savior a magical bag of rice  the supernatural feathered serpent of ancient
Mesoamerica  and a flatulent dragon the size of the Trojan Horse. From the dark halls of the
Lonely Mountain to the blue skies of Westeros  we expect dragons to be gigantic  reptilian
predators with massive  bat-like wings  who wreak havoc defending the gold they have hoarded in
the deep places of the earth. But dragons are full of surprises  as is this book.

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