In the Wake of Bernard HeuvelmansAuthor: Michael Woodley
Publisher: CFZ Press, 2008
Price: £7.99 (paperback)
Isbn: 9781905723201
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Next best thing to a textbook on Fortean marine zoology
By Bob Rickard March 2010
In 1860 the naturalist P. H. Gosse wrote one of the key books of early cryptozoology, The Romance of Natural History. In it he introduced his own ideas about what he called ‘the Great Unknown’: “the existence of the sub-mythic monster popularly known as ‘the sea-serpent’.”
He goes on: “The cloudy uncertainty which has invested the very being of this creature; its home on the lone ocean; the fitful way in which it is seen and lost in its vast solitudes; its dimensions vaguely gigantic; its dragon-like form; and the possibility of its association with beings considered to be lost in obsolete antiquity; all these are attributes which render it peculiarly precious to a romantic naturalist.”
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