A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science

by Henry Wysham Lanier, Tarl Warwick (Editor)

The idea of giant men, animals, and other beings is one which has been treated of profusely through the centuries from antiquity to modernity. Henry Wysham Lanier here compiled some of the most notable tales of this kind into one work, adding in the then-modern idea of giants being not only real in the pseudobiblical sense but present even in relatively recent times.From the cyclops of Homeric lore to the giants of the high middle ages, and from the cold lands of Thor and Odin to the Mesoamerican tropics, this work is at once interesting as a fictional tale and useful as a historical one.

252 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1922

Reviews

[Skyley Stillion · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ummm...... Wow?

I guess it was good for something written in the mid to late eighteen hundreds. If it was translated into modern slang, I would have left a better review. Anyway, it's all mostly just people seemingly being of very large stature, to others. But keep in mind, almost everyone was short in the 1800's and farther back. Seriously. The thing said a guy was tall at fifteen, but he was only five two! My eleven year old sister is five two!