DRAGONS - An Introduction to the Modern Infestation

New York: Warner Books, 1981. Book. Illus. by Carl Lundgren;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 194 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Dragon cover art by Carl Lundgren. The Chapters are: PART ONE - A Short History of the Modern Infestation and the Development of Verminology: The Beginning of the Modern Infestation; Stewear Island and the Green Wilderness Report; Military Response to Dragon Raids; The Disaster; Dragon Studies, The First Phase; The Hoard of the Worm of Nagata; Hoard Fever; Revenge, the Official Toleration Acet and the Consequences for Vernimology; Marsden on Ascension Island; Modern Verminology; The Ominous Implications of Recent Verminographical Research. PART TWO - Anatomical and Behavioral Characteristics: Physical Description; The Mime; Metabolism; Body Temperature; Respiration; Feeding Language; Wandering: Observation; Wandering: Recreation; Wandering: The Arts, Knotting and the Chant; Hoarding; Mating; Incubation and the Hatch; The Cache; The Cache: Infancy; Retirement and the Survival of Females after Reproduction; The Cache: The Young Kit; Froedlich's Experience with the Roils at Taitao; Longevity. PART THREE - Excerpts from the Papers of Marta Froedlich and Philip Marsden: Froedlich's Sketchbook; Froedlich's Diary: Marsden and St. James Come to Cananeia; Three Letters from Marsden to Sean Jones; Introducing Vlad; and Conversation Between Marsden and Vlad..