Exotic Zoology

Short description: 1959 book by Willy Ley

Exotic Zoology

Author| Willy Ley
Illustrator| Olga Ley
Publisher| Random House

Publication date

| 1959
ISBN| 0-517-62545-8
LC Class| 59-8356

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

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.

## External links

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

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