Causally spends Saturday night as an adult reading a spell about how to tame a dragon written in runes* "Drat. The fictional premise of this book is that it is a facsimile of a lost work originally printed in 1895 and supposedly written by a dragonologist named Dr. For true believers only, a lavishly illustrated reproduction of a legendary volume by the world's most distinguished dragonologist.

But if you're willing to let go of the resentment at that, or if you just read it for the fun of it, it's great.Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. But there is the Dragonology collection of books which includes Dragonology: Tracking and Taming Dragons: A Guide for Beginners Vol 1. I know I read it as soon as I got it, and the publication year says 2004, but I'm not very good at remembering exactly what year/how old I was when something happened, so that's just an estimate. Several jobs later Dugald began working at Templar Publishing, where he worked his way up to Senior Editor, writing and editing many books in house. Once upon a time, I had aimed to collect all of the Ologies ever published by the magical Candlewick Press; Dragonology, Egyptology, Wizardology.

May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. The signs are easy to read: an obsession with dragons, wizards, fairies, or tales of other words, a mad delight in fantastic illustrations and ideas; a dislike of human rules or authorities.

The book is vastly illustrated and contains a number of smaller, additional texts and tactile ‘specimens’ such as dragon scales, wing membrane, and dragon dust. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and there are loads of little extras like fold out maps, flaps to look under, secret codes and even stroke-able textured skin samples with added glitter and sparkle. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons is an absolutely gorgeous hardback that will thrill dragon lovers of all ages. Ernest Drake's Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons, [8] and Drake's Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology [9] among others. I think that the Ologies would be useful for breaking in more complicated, especially scientific, words to young children.All books on dragons, wizards, or suchlike should be confiscated, and books on stimulating topics---politics, economic theory, the history of benzene in the manufacturing industries, etc---should be substituted.