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A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs of Indonesia, through the back streets of Hong Kong, and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome. Over time, seahorses have surfaced in some unlikely places. We see them immortalized in the decorative arts; in tribal folklore, literature, and ancient myth; and even on the pages of the earliest medical texts, prescribed to treat everything from skin complaints to baldness to flagging libido. Marine biologist Helen Scales eloquently shows that seahorses are indeed fish, though scientists have long puzzled over their exotic anatomy, and their very strange sex lives—male seahorses are the only males in the animal world that experience childbirth! Our first seahorse...
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Nature, Science, Nonfiction, Sea horsesShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality
Nov 02, 2010, Brand: Gotham Books, Avery
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1592405819 9781592405817
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Poseidon's steed: the story of seahorses, from myth to reality
2009, Gotham Books
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159240474X 9781592404742
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