In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents by Bernard Heuvelmans

And for this task no one is better qualified than Dr. There is only one way to settle the question of the sea-serpents’ existence: examine the evi dence. Heuvelmans wrote in On the Track), sea-serpents have on the one hand been ridi culed by skeptics and on the other made the subject of fantastic speculations. Like the Abominable Snowman (of which Dr.

Heuvelmans does for the sea-serpent what he so convincingly did for unknown land animals. (See the back of the jacket for a few of their comments.) Now, after ten years of research, Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, was praised by scientists and reviewers all over the world. *# » B | ■ 4 9 |m > «■■1 itfliB itfiim « iB mKiiiii n lf M PX s iH S d ■! 5Js ^|7 3 HILL WANG $ 10.00 IN THE W A K E OF THE S E A -S E R P E N T S b y BERNARD HEUVELMANS Translated by Richard Garnett When On the Track of Unknown Animals was published by Hill and Wang in 1959, its author, Dr.

H eu velm an s IN WAKE OFTHE SEASERPENTS: ^ |« s ? B - m/ii 'j J ■ i £ '■*£ H l- ! *B the Giant Squid 3 - The Age of Terror (From Antiquity to the Middle Ages) 4 - The Luckless Bishops (Scandinavia, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) 5 - The Stronsa Beast, 1808 (And Other Misleading Carcases) 6 - Science Accepts but Ignorance Rejects (American Period, 1817-1847) 7 - The Daedalus’s Prehistoric Saurian (Beginning of the British Period, 1848) 8 - Her Majesty’s Sea-Serpents (British Period, Part One, 1848-1870) 9 - Showing the Flag(British Period, Part Two, 1871-1891) 10 - Dr Oudemans’s Enormous Mammal (Dutch Interlude, 1892) I11 - Taken Seriously at Last (The Great International Era, 1892-1914') 12 - Victim of Man’s Battles (Through Two Wars, 1914-1943) 13 - Under a Cloud (The Atomic Age, 1946-1966) 14 - Disentangled and Classified at Last Chronological Table of Sightings Chronological Table of Strandings and Captures Bibliography Index Plates About the Author Back Cover Citation preview Table of contents : Cover About the Book Title page Copyright April 1969 Dedication CONTENTS Plates Illustrations in the Text Acknowledgments Note I - To the Incredulous Reader 2 - The Kraken and.

In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents by Bernard Heuvelmans