Monsters

Christopher Dell

£12.99

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‘Monsters’ provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of fearsome beasts from every age and culture. Christopher Dell investigates what the existence of monsters, even if only in our heads, says about humankind, and explores such questions as how monsters have survived the millennia and why they are universal?

ISBN: 9780500292556 Category:

Description

Monsters have preoccupied mankind from the earliest times: even cave art includes animal-human monsters. Certainly monsters were present in the ancient religions of Egypt and Mesopotamia; the Old Testament describes the giant land and sea monsters Behemoth and Leviathan, while in the world of Classical mythology, monsters embody the fantasies of the gods and the cruellest punishments of human beings. While we may no longer worry about being eaten by trolls on the way home, there remains a fascination with these creatures who have shadowed us throughout history. This book explores monsters down the ages and throughout the world. It provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of the human mind, lit up by flashes of wild and unearthly inspiration.

Additional information

Weight 0.432 kg
Dimensions 17 × 12.4 × 2.3 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

215

Language

English

Edition

Compact edition

Dewey

398.2454 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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