by Lyall Watson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340404317
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«Dreams of Dragons: Ideas on the Edge of Natural History» is a book of essays by Lyall Watson published by Sceptre in paperback.
In twelve essays, Lyall Watson addresses anomalous natural phenomena: properties of water, mass behaviour, left-handedness and the missing link between apes and humans. The book moves through prehistoric sites, ritual mines, dragon villages and headhunters, and questions orthodox science to reveal the poetic wonder of the natural.
The work was originally published in 1987 under the title The Dreams of Dragons: An Exploration and Celebration of the Mysteries of Nature.
For readers of popular science and lovers of natural mysteries seeking a critical and poetic look at the inexplicable.
Lyall Watson was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with coining the "hundredth monkey" effect in his 1979 book, Lifetide; later, in The Whole Earth Review, he conceded this was "a metaphor of my own making".
