In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents by Bernard Heuvelmans DSc FZS Tr from the French by R Garnett - With drawings by A Watteau (1968).pdf

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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
W
hen
On the Track of Unknown Animals
was published by Hill and Wang in 1959, its
author, Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, was
praised by scientists and reviewers all over
the world. (See the back of the jacket for a
few of their comments.) Now, after ten
years of research, Dr. Heuvelmans does for
the sea-serpent what he so convincingly did
for unknown land animals.
Like the Abominable Snowman (of which
Dr. 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. There is
only one way to settle the question of the
sea-serpents’ existence: examine the evi­
dence. And for this task no one is better
qualified than Dr. Heuvelmans. His thor­
oughgoing investigations of over five hun­
dred reported sightings—they come from the
Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans and
span the years 1639 to 1965— of animals
thought to be sea-serpents are models of
scientific probing and precision, which leave
the reader convinced that sea-serpents do in
fact exist. Heuvelmans quite willingly calls
a hoax a hoax, rejects the doubtful, and
accepts only that which can be proved. He
has been able to pin down seven distinct
types of sea-serpents. Their “convenient in­
formal” names are Long-Necked, Merhorse,
Many-Humped, Many-Finned, Super-Otter,
Super-Eel, and Marine-Saurian. The book
concludes with chronologies of sightings,
strandings, and captures.
This translation by Richard Garnett (who
also translated
On the Track)
from
Le
Grand Serpent de Mer
includes a condensed
version of Dr. Heuvelmans’ book on the
giant squid.
Jacket photograph by Grant White
In the Wake o f the
Sea-Serpents
by the same author
On the Track of Unknown Animals
In the W ake o f the
Sea-Serpents
by Bernard Heuvelmans,
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Translated from the French by Richard Garnett
W ith drawings by A lika W atteau
There are disconcerting facts affirmed b y serious men who have witnessed
them, or who have learnt o f them from men like themselves: to accept all or
to deny all seem to have equal disadvantages; and I venture to say that here,
as with all things out o f the ordinary, not within the common rules, there
is a course to be steered between the credulous and the unbelievers.
La Bruycrc,
Caracteres
HILL
and
W ANG
N ew York

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