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Title: The Dreams of Dragons: An Exploration and Celebration of the Mysteries of Nature by Lyall Watson ISBN: 0-89281-372-5 Publisher: Destiny Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Read it for the Cannibal article
Comment: I read and enjoyed this book years ago, and copied a chapter I have reread a number of times and shared with friends. In the chapter called The Essence of Balance, Watson describes a culture of cannibals living in Indonesian New Guinea. These Papuan Asmat people have (had, presumably) a system of headhunting that at first glance is repellent: eating your dead enemy's brains? But in delicate detail, one comes to potentially understand this system as infinitely more civilized (to start with, by resolving tribal tensions with a single death) than our supposedly superior ways of bombing, maiming, and starving hundreds or millions. This essay alone is worth the price of the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Whimsy in science?
Comment: Lyall Watson is a renaissance man, and his vast and varied experiences, readings
and interests are easily on display in this and all his other books. Watson has an eye for whimsical and unusual events, for beautiful images whether natural
or manufactured, and a keen intution for the magic in the ordinary image, thought, and objects.
This book specifically addresses all those strange and unexplained events which our orthodox scientists (isn't that an oxymoron) reject as unproven,
untested, and unscientific. Watson who holds a PhD in some branch of the natural sciences sees the inifinite humor, compassion, and joy inherent in being
alive on this earth, and the strange inhabitants of it, whether it be Komodo dragons, human beings, or rivers. In his stories and anecdotes inanimate objects
come to life, water can be happy or sad, mammals can re-grow severed limbs, and teh existance of shells (with their forms often representing mathematical perfection)
can have hidden lives....
If for no other reason than to have whimsical, unusual, and interesting trivia to talk about at a dry and dull dinner table, this book is to be read and marvelled at...
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Title: The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects by Lyall Watson ISBN: 089281408X Publisher: Destiny Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's "Dancing Island" by Lyall Watson ISBN: 0892813539 Publisher: Destiny Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant by Lyall Watson ISBN: 0393324591 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil by Lyall Watson ISBN: 0060927909 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell by Lyall Watson ISBN: 0452282586 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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