In this illuminating discussion of the role of animals in Western thought, the author shows, thro...

Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messen...

The Raven and the Sun: Poems and Stories

Though not generally perceived as graceful, crows are remarkably so--a single curve undulates fro...

The crow is a remarkably graceful bird: a single curve runs from the tip of its beak to the end o...

At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundari...

The Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the pr...

This book represents a scholarly treatise on folkloric and literary narratives of animals.

Animals in the Third Reich

Our storybooks are full of lizards, but we usually call them something else--dragons, serpents, d...

An extraordinary menagerie of fantastical and unreal beasts featuring hundreds of illustrations, ...

In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State that had been purchased by his Ru...