The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustr...(展开全部)

Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and Eng...(展开全部)

Surekha Davies is a cultural historian and historian of science at Western Connecticut State University. Her interests include exploration, observational sciences, cultural encounters, monstrosity and the history of mentalities c.1400–1800. Formerly a British Library Curator and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, she is a Founding Editor of the series 'Maps, Spaces, Cultures' (B...(展开全部)

班·温特斯，美国作家。致力于为儿童和成年人创作戏剧、音乐剧，并在多家报刊开设专栏。创作本书前，曾出版过少儿读物，也曾参与畅销书“逆境求生手册”系列的撰写。本书问世旋即成为《纽约时报》畅销书，最新作品《安娜·卡列尼娜与机器人》同样受到读者喜爱。

班·温特斯，美国作家。致力于为儿童和成年人创作戏剧、音乐剧，并在多家报刊开设专栏。创作本书前，曾出版过少儿读物，也曾参与畅销书“逆境求生手册”系列的撰写。本书问世旋即成为《纽约时报》畅销书，最新作品《安娜·卡列尼娜与机器人》同样受到读者喜爱。

From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are ev...(展开全部)

This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. You mortals can't even see the monsters we have to fight all the time. So when a game of dodgeball turned into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, I couldn't exactly ask my gym teacher for help. And that was just for starters. This is the ...(展开全部)