EAN: 9781594746161

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

An extraordinary biography. A gallery of astonishing work. The legacy of a madman. Philadelphia the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps cobblestone streets and horse-drawn carriages-and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts-mermaids minotaurs and satyrs-were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training his travels with carnivals and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black's magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia a Gray's Anatomy for mythological beasts-dragons centaurs Pegasus Cerberus-all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.

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