A Chinese Bestiary : Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas by Richard E. Strassberg (Repost)
Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (June 17, 2002) | ISBN: 0520218442 | Pages: 360 | PDF | 22.27 MB
A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine.