发表于2024-11-07
Beasts Beyond the Fire pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
This is a book of vivid factual accounts of man-
killing animals on land and sea and of man s
encounters with.them.It exolores the domain
of fear.There are discussions of deadly crea-
tures of the ocean, ranging from sharks to sea
snakes and bizarre highlypoisonous fish that
swim througn coral reefs like mages from a
feverish dream. Early chapters chronicle shark
attacks ana explore legends, of giant squid
Dulling met from ships with their tentacles.
and sea seroents such as the monster seen in
the harbor of Gloucester Massachusetts, by
hundreds of people.
Michael Jenkinson goes on to describe
bloody encounters between grizzly bears and
mountainmen in the American Rockies: the
ways of man-eating tigers and leopards in In-
dia and of lions in Africa the dreaded wolf of
Gevaudan that ravaged the French country-
side in the eighteenth oentury; the horror of
being stalked by a crocodile in the jungles of
central Africa.
The book is about killer bees and the deadly,
crushing coils of the anaconda. It takes one
from the Hopi snake dances of Arizona to fun-
aamentalist rattlesnake sects in Appalachia
and to the sacred cobra cults of India
Here one can read the stones of a man who
actually was swallowed by a Whale. and lived
of the lumbering hippopami that when en-
raged take hundreds of ives in Africa every year: and of the dangerous experiences of the.
author himself, as well as other outdoorsmen,
with giant brown bears in Alaska. "
Within. a framework of carefully researched
zoology, mythology, anthropology, and history,
Michael Jenkinson s primary business is story-
telling.This is a volume of adventures on many
continents and seas,tales that might be told
around a fading campfire after the unexpected
snap of a dry branch out there in the darkness.
评分
评分
评分
评分
Beasts Beyond the Fire pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024