THE BOOK OF BEASTS: BEING A TRANSLATION FROM A LATIN BESTIARY OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY BY T.H. WHITE flesh and blood AND ONLY YOU CAN SAVE

AND ONLY YOU CAN SAVE IT

Look at those jaunty little legs

The Captain

stringing them together

At its peak in the early 18th century its territory was huge

THE BOOK OF BEASTS: BEING A TRANSLATION FROM A LATIN BESTIARY OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY BY T.H. WHITE flesh and blood AND ONLY YOU CAN SAVEIf a serpent swallows the spittle of a fasting man, it dies. Trees felled in the wrong season breed termites. If eels are drowned in wine, those who drink it get a loathing for liquor. These and similar flights of fancy were articles of faith in the twelfth century the era of the fascinating Latin prose bestiary translated in this volume. The translator is T. H. White, author of The Once and Future King and outstanding medievalist. Of The Book of