Newfoundland and Labrador has a rich history and storytelling tradition
concerning unknown creatures of the deep – and on land. Some of them we’re certain exist, others we’re not so sure. We just don’t
know enough to say one way or the other. ‘Here Be Dragons: Strange Creatures of Newfoundland and Labrador,” is a
discussion of our province’s oddities of the animal world – our cryptids, or
animals whose existence is alleged but not definitively proven. Bruce Hynes’s book is a very respectable examination of cryptozoology, the
study of such ‘hidden’ creatures specific to Newfoundland and Labrador.Monday, October 22, 2012
CRYPTOLINK: Book Review - Here Be Dragons: Strange Creatures of Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador has a rich history and storytelling tradition
concerning unknown creatures of the deep – and on land. Some of them we’re certain exist, others we’re not so sure. We just don’t
know enough to say one way or the other. ‘Here Be Dragons: Strange Creatures of Newfoundland and Labrador,” is a
discussion of our province’s oddities of the animal world – our cryptids, or
animals whose existence is alleged but not definitively proven. Bruce Hynes’s book is a very respectable examination of cryptozoology, the
study of such ‘hidden’ creatures specific to Newfoundland and Labrador.
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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