Exotic Zoology

Exotic Zoology
Author	Willy Ley
Illustrator	Olga Ley
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	1959
ISBN	ISBN:0-517-62545-8
LC Class	59-8356

Short description: 1959 book by Willy Ley

Exotic Zoology is a 1959 cryptozoological book^[1] by Willy Ley, a science writer and space advocate. The illustrator of the book is Olga Ley.^[2]

Content

Ley had written a number of books containing scientific oddities; Exotic Zoology collects the cryptozoological matter from those books.^[3] Throughout the book he shows examples of organisms that were rumored to exist, or were thought to be impossible, that were shown to be real; and others that were accepted as fact, that were discovered to have never existed: "He speculates about dragons and sea serpents, wingless birds and Abominable Snowmen."^[4] The book, in its description of (fictional) peoples and creatures, has been compared to John Mandeville's Travels.^[5] Some of the claims have been criticized or ridiculed, for instance the statement that giant squids had left scars on whales of two feet in diameter.^[6]^[7]

Exotic Zoology was not reviewed in many academic journals. An exception was a review in the Science journal, in 1959.^[8]

References

↑ Stein, Gordon (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-57392-021-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=dW8YAAAAIAAJ&q="Exotic+Zoology"+"willy+ley".
↑ "Who illustrated "Exotic Zoology"?". https://literature.stackexchange.com/a/2910/1982.
↑ Bille, Matthew A. (2006). Shadows of existence: discoveries and speculations in zoology. Hancock House. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-88839-612-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=sVYVAQAAIAAJ&q="Exotic+Zoology"+"willy+ley".
↑ "Rev. of Exotic Zoology". Saturday Review 50: 41. 1967. https://books.google.com/books?id=nC7oAAAAMAAJ&q="Exotic+Zoology"+"willy+ley". Retrieved 1 February 2011.
↑ Preece, Rod (1999). Animals and nature: cultural myths, cultural realities. UBC Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-7748-0724-1. https://archive.org/details/animalsnaturecul0000pree.
↑ Ellis, Richard (2006). Monsters of the Sea. Globe Pequot. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-59228-967-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=nzfvYlO1hDcC&pg=PA252.
↑ Ellis, Richard (1999). The search for the giant squid. Penguin. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-14-028676-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=70BQqBS2pJsC&q="Exotic+Zoology"+"willy+ley".
↑ Gardner, Thomas S. (1959). "Reviewed Work: Exotic Zoology by Willy Ley". Science 130 (3387): 1469. doi:10.1126/science.130.3387.1469.a.

External links

A Bibliography of the Works of Willy Ley by Jean M. Perreault, University of Alabama in Huntsville

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[1] Stein, Gordon (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-57392-021-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=dW8YAAAAIAAJ&q="Exotic+Zoology"+"willy+ley".

[2] "Who illustrated "Exotic Zoology"?". https://literature.stackexchange.com/a/2910/1982.

[3] Bille, Matthew A. (2006). Shadows of existence: discoveries and speculations in zoology. Hancock House. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-88839-612-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=sVYVAQAAIAAJ&q="Exotic+Zoology"+"willy+ley".

[4] "Rev. of Exotic Zoology". Saturday Review 50: 41. 1967. https://books.google.com/books?id=nC7oAAAAMAAJ&q="Exotic+Zoology"+"willy+ley". Retrieved 1 February 2011.

[5] Preece, Rod (1999). Animals and nature: cultural myths, cultural realities. UBC Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-7748-0724-1. https://archive.org/details/animalsnaturecul0000pree.

[6] Ellis, Richard (2006). Monsters of the Sea. Globe Pequot. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-59228-967-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=nzfvYlO1hDcC&pg=PA252.

[7] Ellis, Richard (1999). The search for the giant squid. Penguin. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-14-028676-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=70BQqBS2pJsC&q="Exotic+Zoology"+"willy+ley".

[8] Gardner, Thomas S. (1959). "Reviewed Work: Exotic Zoology by Willy Ley". Science 130 (3387): 1469. doi:10.1126/science.130.3387.1469.a.

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