Author: Lavers, Chris

From biblical stories about virgins to adventures with Harry Potter, unicorns have enchanted people for millennia. This iconic animal has journeyed widely through the landscape of the human imagination and has influenced ideas about the natural world more than any other myth. The nature of the mysterious animal from Central Asia was a favorite topic of speculation among the ancient philosophers, and in the Christian era the unicorn mutated into an allegory of Jesus."The Natural History of Unicorns is the story of our engagement with the natural and supernatural realms, and how these mirror changes in human history over the course of 2,500 years.