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Bücher Englische Bücher Belletristik Anthologien The History of Dragons
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You have to chew on the ugly truth that dragons weren't born from bedtime whimsy but from bone-deep fears of floods, eclipses, and the beasts that prowled the edges of campfires—monsters stitched from croc skulls and comet tails to scare kids straight or kings humble. "The History of Dragons" doesn't fluff the scales with fairy dust; it hacks through the haze, showing how Sumerian scribes slapped… wings on serpents to explain why rivers swallowed villages, and Viking skalds spun fire-breathers as sky wolves gnawing the sun. This ain't kid-lit lore—it's a gut-punch genealogy, tracing how these sky serpents slithered from Aztec feathered fiends to Welsh worm-hoards, all while priests and poets peddled them as divine piss-offs or pagan punchlines.
Crammed in these coils are the sharp hooks they skip in dragoncon panels: the Chinese lung as emperor's lapdog, hoarding rain like a taxman with thunder; the medieval wyrms as churchyard boogeymen, torched to sell indulgences; and the colonial hacks who slapped Euro-scales on indigenous sky-beasts, turning sacred guardians into greedy gold-grubbers. No glossy Game of Thrones gloss here—just the grimy grind of how dragons mirrored the grubbers who dreamed them up, from Babylonian chaos-killers to Freudian phallus frights, proving these "myths" were maps to the madness in our meat-brains. Bashers huff "overreach," but the cave etchings and codex scraps spit facts: dragons didn't fly solo; they rode the coattails of conquerors, shape-shifting with every empire's ego.
As 2025's eco-apocalypses summon scaly saviors in memes and movies, why lap up the sanitized swoop when the original blueprint's a barbed-wire ballad of hubris and havoc? This tome shoves the shards in your snout—no chaser, just the afterburn of awe that makes your inner caveman roar. Snag it if you're chasing the fire; bail if fairy tales float your boat. The hoard awaits; hoard-hunter or hoard-head? Your call. Dieses Produkt haben wir gerade leider nicht auf Lager.
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Erscheinungsdatum
30.10.2025
Sprache
Englisch
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9783565070800
Herausgeber
epubli
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Nein
Autor
Auke de Haan
Seitenanzahl
204
Auflage
1
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Broschiert
Buch Untertitel
Myths, Truths, and Legacy (Pocketbook Edition)
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