The Book of Beasts
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"Ancient traditions, when tested by the severe processes of modern investigation, commonly enough fade away into mere dreams: but it is singular how often the dream turns out to have been a half-waking one, presaging a reality."--On the Natural History of Man-Like Apes (1863) by Thomas Henry Huxley "And as dutiful children let us cover the Nakednesse of our Fathers with the Cloke of a favourable Interpretation."-A. Ross
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The Book of Beasts (1954) is a book by T. H. White, said to be an English translation of a medieval bestiary originally written in Latin.
From the blurb:
He further enhances the volume with informative discussions of the history of the bestiary from its origins in remote oral traditions; through Herodotus, Pliny and Aristotle; during the medieval period and the Renaissance; and up to Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors (1646).
