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A vivid introduction to animals from all parts of the world, portraying them in their specialized environments with intricately detailed pictures. Imagine will inspire curiosity and conversation as it is explored again and again. Includes a four-page key to the animals depicted. Full color.

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley's novel from the sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book's figures...