The Flight of the Dragons - Hardcover
Text, four-color illustrations, and line drawings recreate the dragons of ancient myth and legend, showing how they flew, breathed fire, mated, hatched their young, hoarded gold and precious stones, and defended themselves
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- PublisherHarpercollins
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0063120305
- ISBN 13 9780063120303
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description hardback with dustjacket. Wayne Anderson (illustrator). Combining fact with fantasy, science with romance, the author sets out to prove that dragons really did exist. Taking clues to the size and nature of these fantastical beasts of mythology and legend, Peter Dickinson presents a riveting thesis on how so great a creature as the dragon actually managed to fly. Name in front, dustjacket in adhesive plastic cover stuck to book. Seller Inventory # 23180270
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Here, in one volume, is the accumulated wisdom and experience of Australia's best-loved gardener. Written simply, set out clearly and wonderfully illustrated the book conveys Allan Seale's joy in gardening to balcony gardener and landscape gardener alike; all aspects are covered, detail is precise, lists are extensive and information voluminous. The book gives a basic understanding of the soil with which every gardener must work and broadens to encompass the specialised knowledge needed for the successful growth of flower, fruit, vegetable, bush and tree. It shows how this knowledge can be used in the design of personal environment; how inner-city and bush dwellers can create a garden appropriate to their setting and how the suburban gardener can supply cut flowers, fresh vegetables and a family oasis. Indoor gardening, hydroponics - the love of the garden and every situation is here. This is a complete gardening book. 192 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Horticulture::Gardening; Gardening; ISBN: 0063120305. ISBN/EAN: 9780063120303. Inventory No: 268128. Seller Inventory # 268128
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Wayne Anderson (illustrator). Like new, First Edition, hardback with dust jacket, 132 pages of text and illustrations, The Flight of the Dragons, by Dickinson, Peter, pub. Harper and Row. Seller Inventory # SKU1015853
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Wayne Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue cloth over boards hardcover with gilt detailing. Dust jacket in very good condition, only very slight bumping to corners. Binding all intact. Great overall condition. Seller Inventory # 089851
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The Flight Dragons
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Wayne Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book condition is near fine. Hard cover. 1st edition. Dust jacket near, no tears. Book block clean. Book boards clean front and back. Spine intact. Text body clean. Over-all a great and neat copy. This thrilling book combines fact with fantasy science with romance. In an elegant exposition Peter Dickenson, award winning novelist, set out to prove that dragons did exist. The mythology of dragons gives many surprising consistent clues as to the size and nature of the beasts. Peter Dickenson has woven theses intriguing folk_tales and anecdotes into a riveting thesis on how so great a creature as the dragon actually manage to fly. His theory exactly ties in with reports on dragons' flight patterns, eating habits and family life. He reveals to us the dragon's special reasons for hoarding gold, their distinctive mating and evolutionary cycle, in a romantic yet well-researched and wholly satisfying construction of the dragon's unique way of life. Wayne Anderson supports the substantial text with his own brilliant illustrations of real dragons, their landscapes, liars, the maidens they threatened and Knights they vanquished. His glowing pictures bring these strange and compelling creatures and their distant worlds to vivid life. The integrate with the text in a flourish of pictorial fantasy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1680755434692
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Wayne Anderson (illustrator). Gebrauchsspuren sind vorhanden. ---. nein. Seller Inventory # 38504
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. Wayne Anderson (illustrator). Good. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0063120305-3
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