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Title: A fascinating book written in an engaging manner
Review: From reading this book you get the impression that as a child Willy Ley wandered the biggest library in town looking up odd animals... and kept doing that for 30 years! This book covers lots of interesting animals that were at one time very mysterious, or still are. Willy has tracked down the earliest references to basilisks, dragons, plants that spawn mammals, etc. and tried to divine the truth. Modern science has solved many of these old mysteries (where do eels come from?), but others elude us still (kraken).What sets this apart from other "I saw Big Foot" type books is that Willy really knows his stuff and has no axe to grind. He relates the evidence as-is and gives you enough information to make your own judgement.Willy also writes about rocket science. He was an early member of the rocket society in Germany that gave Werner Von Braun his start. But Willy left Germany in the late 30's, Werner did not.
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