11/28/2023 0 Comments A brief history of unicorns![]() Of course something like that might exist! There are plenty of horned hoofed animals, a unicorn isn’t much of a stretch.īut the unicorn carries a trainload of baggage behind it: a symbol of spirituality and Christianity, emblem of British royalty, symbol of virgin purity, a creature in roleplaying games, icon of New Age thinking, and decoration on a third-grade girl’s wall. On the surface, the unicorn is the simplest of fantastic creatures: a horse with a single horn jutting from its forehead. But the book appeared to be exactly what I wanted: a multi-discipline exploration of the development and evolution of the unicorn legend. I did check to see that the book was not crazy pseudo-science making the claim that the fantasy version of the unicorn was real and scientists were refusing to admit the truth. ![]() A bit of both stores rubbed off onto this one, and so in the midst of taxidermy snakes was this book promising to tell me the Natural History of a fantasy animal. actually, I have no idea what the store was really selling, except that it was next to the Pirate Supply Store (no joke, this exists, although principally to fund a writing workshop in the back) and the excellent science-fiction and fantasy bookstore Borderlands. Such was the case with The Natural History of Unicorns, which I discovered not in a bookstore, but in a curio shop in San Francisco specializing in. ![]() Some book titles can grab you across a room and demand your money.
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