| Author |
Hathaway, Nancy, 1946-
|
| Title |
The unicorn / by Nancy Hathaway. |
| OCLC |
10711105 |
| ISBN |
0517449021 : |
|
9780517449028 |
| Publisher |
New York : Avenel Books : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1984. |
|
©1980 |
| Description |
191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Unicorns.
|
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 186-187. |
| Partial contents |
The Eastern beginnings -- The fierce Karkadann -- The unicorn-boy of India -- The hunt of the unicorn -- The lion and the unicorn -- The unicorn, wild people and wood nymphs -- The magical horn -- Centuries of search -- The false unicorn -- Myth and mass culture -- The celestrial unicorn. |
| Summary |
Tells of the legends of the unicorn from such places as Indian, Persia, Abyssinia, Scandinavia, Poland, Florida, Canada, Maine, South Africa, and Tibet. |
| General note |
Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1980. |
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