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Book Description: A pioneer in the strange art and ambiguous science of zo phagy that is, of studying animals by eating them British natural historian FRANCIS TREVELYAN BUCKLAND (1826 1880) was a wildly popular speaker and writer of the Victorian era. In his classic four volume Curiosities of Natural History, published between 1857 and 1872, he shared his love of creatures exotic and mysterious with readers who devoured his charming and erudite essays much in the same way he devoured his animal subjects. 'If there is one person that I would have expected to have captured a sea serpent in the 19th century for the sole purpose of eating it, it would be Frank Buckland,' writes cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction to Buckland's series. One of the founding grandfathers of cryptozoology, the discipline that investigates animal mysteries, Buckland was not 'a wild eyed 'true believer' in anything strange,' insists Coleman, but brought, instead, 'a skeptical, open minded approach' to his work. Indeed, here, in the 'third series' of Curiosities of Natural History, Buckland's erudition is clear in his animated discussions of, among many other things, a monster lobster, a zoological auction, traps for wild monkeys, the sensation of camel riding, and determining the temperature of a porpoise's breath. This new edition, a replica of the 1888 'Popular Edition,' is part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. LOREN COLEMAN is author of numerous books of cryptozoology, including Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters.

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