A Book of Giants
by Henry Wysham Lanier
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lanier, Henry Wysham, 1873-
- Title
- A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science.
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
- Subject
- Giants
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48763
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48763
- Release Date
- April 22, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A BOOK OF GIANTS TALES OF VERY TALL MEN OF MYTH, LEGEND, HISTORY, AND SCIENCE
- 2.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.Part I GIANTS OF THE MORNING OF THE WORLD — CHAPTER I HOW ZEUS FOUGHT WITH TITANS AND GIANTS — CHAPTER II THE GIANT WHO SHINES IN THE SKY — CHAPTER III THE OUTWITTING OF POLYPHEMUS — CHAPTER IV WHEN THOR WENT TO JOTUNHEIM — CHAPTER V THE GIANT PYRAMID-BUILDER — CHAPTER VI THE FATAL PRIDE OF VUKUB — CHAPTER VII OG, KING OF BASHAN — CHAPTER VIII A SON OF ANAK
- 6.Part II IN THE DAYS OF ROMANCE — CHAPTER IX FERRAGUS, WHO OWNED THE BRAZEN HEAD — CHAPTER X THE GIANT OF ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT — CHAPTER XI SIR LAUNCELOT AND TARQUIN — CHAPTER XII THE ADVENTURES OF YVAIN — CHAPTER XIII THE TURKE AND GAWAIN — CHAPTER XIV AMADIS AMONG THE GIANTS — CHAPTER XV GOGMAGOG — CHAPTER XVI THE GIANT BEHIND THE WATERFALL — CHAPTER XVII THE ONE GOOD GIANT: ST. CHRISTOPHER
- 7.Part III NURSERY TALES OF MANY LANDS — CHAPTER XVIII THE GIANT HAND Irish — CHAPTER XIX THE GIANT WHO HAD NO HEART IN HIS BODY Norse — CHAPTER XX THE BITER BIT Serbian [275:1] — CHAPTER XXI THE PEACH'S SON Japanese [290:1] — CHAPTER XXII THE MAN WHO LOST HIS LEGS Korean [295:1] — CHAPTER XXIII THE STONE GIANTESS North American Indian [299:1]
- 8.Part IV SOME REAL GIANTS, and WHAT SCIENCE HAS LEARNED ABOUT THEM — CHAPTER XXIV SOME REAL GIANTS — CHAPTER XXV WHAT SCIENCE HAS LEARNED ABOUT GIANTS
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