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Автор: Bill Denton
Год: 2013
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 224
ISBN: 9781457522390
Throughout history, people of every culture on every continent believed dragons walked the earth. Their likeness has been recreated in jewelry, carvings, sculptures, and paintings, beginning with 25,000-year-old cave drawings. Thousands of dusty documents penned by scholars, explorers, and men of science give descriptive testimony of close encounters with miscreations they called dragons. In modern times, they are portrayed as a product of humankind's imagination, and ancient chronicles have been relegated to the status of legends and folklore. But are the chronicles just stories, or are they true accounts of actual creatures-perhaps dinosaurs? In 1988, Ivy Johnson discovered a four-volume journal written during the mid-1700s by Samuel Crawford, a designated historian on the Virginia frontier. Everything in the journal was drenched in truth, somewhat like a ship's logbook, except for one anomaly that Ivy couldn't justify: Crawford documented that a pioneer family...
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