title: Dragons: A Natural History
author:  Karl P. N. Shuker 
description: If you ever encounter a dragon, it would be good to have this book on hand. Thanks to it, you will be able to recognize the particular species of the beast you have met, whether worm, basilisk, cockatrice, tarasque, peluda, or mere dragonet. Knowing such information could keep you from accidentally feeding a baby wyvern, as a girl named Maud did in Herefordshire, whereupon it grew into a winged monster that terrorized the countryside until it was finally dispatched by a fearless knight. Charmingly written and gorgeously illustrated with dragons ranging from Babylonian Ishtar's guard dragon as portrayed in mosaic bas-relief to Quetzalcoatl in Mayan codices to the creature Saint George famously fought, this is an excellent popular folklore tome. <i>Patricia Monaghan</i>
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  # Prologue
  
  
  Lautreamont Knight Country, people called it the country of Dragon Breeders.
  
  
  
  
  
  To the north was the Zepharos Empire, while to the south was the Chevron
  Kingdom.
  
  
  
  
  
  Sandwiched between the two major powers, a small country with a population of
  no more than five million, had a special academy.
  
  
  
  
  
  Ansarivan Dragon Riding Academy.
  
  
  
  
  
  Educating and guiding teenage boys and girls who formed a contract with
  dragons -- an academy for Dragon Breeders.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Part 1
  
  
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