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Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore
By Mayor, Adrienne
- ISBN
- 9780691247861
- Publisher
- Princeton Univ.
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Reviewed on July 1, 2025 | Print Reviews
The growing discipline of geomythology explores how prescientific cultures attempted to describe and understand their environment and pass that knowledge to later generations. Mayor (history, Stanford Univ.; Flying Snakes & Griffin Claws) shares her favorite legends and myths, from all over the world, about natural disasters and phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, meteors, fossils, and quicksand. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
