Colonel Fowler and the Mammoth, 1887 February 27, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Col. F. Fowler lived for 12 years in Alaska, from c.1877-1889. On finishing his time there he was asked by a reporter about the most interesting thing he had seen there. He answered as follows: Two years ago last summer I left Kodiac for a trip to the head waters of the Snake River, where […]
Woolly Mammoths among the Pharoahs? April 14, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Medieval
**This post is dedicated to Andy the Mad Monk who put Beachcombing onto it** Beachcombing has long wondered if the publishing world would not have room for a volume on long-travelled exotic animals in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: giraffes turning up in Renaissance Italy; polar bears being brought down to the medieval Arabs; […]
