Kniha SEA MONSTERS Rees Haynes

SEA MONSTERS

The Evidence, the Hoaxes, and the Science Behind the Sea Serpent Legend

Autor: Rees Haynes
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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The oldest monster in the world has the best witnesses. A Royal Navy captain swore to it in an offic...

Informace o knize

Autor
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2026
Stránek
74
EAN
9798182208031
Enbook ID
52982748
Hmotnost
113
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 4

Kompletní popis

The oldest monster in the world has the best witnesses.

A Royal Navy captain swore to it in an official report to the Admiralty. Two Fellows of the Zoological Society watched it through their glasses off the coast of Brazil and never forgot what they saw. For four hundred years, sober sailors, trained naturalists, and whole ships' companies have reported a long, dark animal moving through open water, an animal that fits nothing in the textbooks.

Is the sea serpent real?

Sea Monsters takes the question seriously, the way it deserves. No breathless belief. No lazy ridicule. Just the evidence, followed wherever it leads, including to the places where it runs out.

Inside, you will find:


  • The cases that built the legend, from the HMS Daedalus of 1848 to the Valhalla sighting that even hardened skeptics have struggled to explain

  • The science of misidentification, and how a decaying basking shark turns itself into a plesiosaur

  • The hoaxes, from a fake skeleton built of ancient whale bones to a monster assembled out of kelp and a rock

  • What modern statisticians and zoologists actually conclude when they treat the reports as data instead of folklore

  • Why the deep ocean, which hid the giant squid until 2004 and the colossal squid until 2025, is the real mystery


This is the third volume in the Cryptids Declassified series, and the bridge into the deep. If you want the truth about sea monsters, skeptical of the creature and respectful of the people who looked, start here.

Evidence, not speculation.