In the course of our work as booksellers, we come across a plethora of books on strange and wonderful subjects. Nonesuch more than this translation from a Latin bestiary of the twelfth century.
Our senior specialist in literature, Sammy, shares one of his favourite passages, a description of the fearsome basilisk, from The Book of Beasts, edited by T.H. White.
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