An account of unknown creatures sighted by many respectable persons between 1638 and the present day. Fascinating reading from documents, magazine articles, and newspaper stories.
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June Pusback O'Neill has worked as an administrator in higher education, television, and advertising. She lives in Katanah, New York.
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This review is from: The Great New England Sea Serpent: An Account of Unknown Creatures Sighted by Many Respectable Persons Between 1638 and the Present Day (Paperback)
June O'Neill has pulled off the very difficult feat of writing a book on a cryptozoological subject and making that book balanced, readable, and highly entertaining. This thoroughly researched examination of the New England "sea serpent" story - not just the celebrated events of 1817, but all sightings, from Colonial times through the present day - is enough to make even the most hardened skeptic gaze out to sea and ponder whether we may have overlooked a spectacular discovery. O'Neill doesn't try to argue the case for a large, unknown animal. She lets the witnesses speak for her and lets the reader draw the conclusions. Bottom line: This is a marvelous book. No one with an interest in marine life, cryptozoology, or the magic and mystery of the oceans should pass it by.
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A fascinating compilation of sightings to make you wonder.,
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This review is from: The Great New England Sea Serpent: An Account of Unknown Creatures Sighted by Many Respectable Persons Between 1638 and the Present Day (Paperback)
I read this book on the train to and from work one week and found the stories Ms. O'Neill told fascinating. She made no judgments, but only compiled hundreds of years of sightings and stories in a well-written and interesting form.A very well researched chronology of the sightings of the serpent.
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A ground-breaking history book!,
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This review is from: The Great New England Sea Serpent: An Account of Unknown Creatures Sighted by Many Respectable Persons Between 1638 and the Present Day (Paperback)
June O'Neill's simple journalistic approach of building suspense by listing sighting after sighting throughout the centuries is thoroughly convincing! I kept this book on my nightstand and read it through in less than a week! She touches on the peoples' lives it touched and threatened to ruin (to say you've seen a sea monster is to label yourself as a nut...) How can you deny the existence of SOMETHING in the New England waters with so many reports from so many reputable people? She caps the book with a terrible possibility. Have these marvelous creatures become extinct due to mankind's overfishing of their food supply or pollution of their oceans? This is a must-read, a document that proves that Nessie, Champ, and OTHERS exist! A groundbreaking history book!
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What combination of vision, courage, hubris, and avarice must the early European explorers have possessed to sail west across the wide Atlantic toward what they believed was the Orient, leaving behind them the known world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sea serpent sightings, great sea serpent, unknown creature, similar creature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Cape Ann, New York, Nova Scotia, Colonel Perkins, Gulf of Maine, Linnaean Society, Long Island Sound, Captain M'Quhae, Captain Rich, Georges Bank, Massachusetts Bay, North Atlantic, Bernard Heuvelmans, Abraham Cummings, Bay of Fundy, Hudson River, John Quincy Adams, Penobscot Bay, Pigeon Cove, Alden Bradford, Amos Story, George Woodbury, Linnaean Committee, Loch Ness New!
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What combination of vision, courage, hubris, and avarice must the early European explorers have possessed to sail west across the wide Atlantic toward what they believed was the Orient, leaving behind them the known world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sea serpent sightings, great sea serpent, unknown creature, similar creature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Cape Ann, New York, Nova Scotia, Colonel Perkins, Gulf of Maine, Linnaean Society, Long Island Sound, Captain M'Quhae, Captain Rich, Georges Bank, Massachusetts Bay, North Atlantic, Bernard Heuvelmans, Abraham Cummings, Bay of Fundy, Hudson River, John Quincy Adams, Penobscot Bay, Pigeon Cove, Alden Bradford, Amos Story, George Woodbury, Linnaean Committee, Loch Ness New!
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