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7492588The Great Sea Serpent Hunt of 1817 & 1818https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-great-sea-serpent-hunt-of-1817---1818-9798231267958/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7098857/image.jpg?v=6388165728683300006161MXNPat PfliegerInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A sea serpent haunts the waters off New England, and the story goes viral.</strong></p><p>When a sea serpent was spotted in the waters off the coast of New England in 1817, New Englanders were enthralled. They pursued it; they shot at it; they wrote poems about it; they analyzed it; they joked about it; they used it in advertisements; and they reprinted every description they could find of strange creatures sighted in the waters in earlier years.</p><p><em>The Great Sea Serpent Hunt of 1817 & 1818</em> is a collection of over 100 pieces taken from contemporary newspapers, with commentary by a scholar of 19th-century American social history. Its a look at an early viral phenomenon. Its the story of the pursuit of a cryptozoological wonder with an unexpected ending.</p><p><strong>Pat Pflieger</strong> earned a PhD in American Studies at the University of Minnesota and was a university professor for 30 years. Her research on 19th-century Americans and what they read appears online.</p>...7116634The Great Sea Serpent Hunt of 1817 & 18186161https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-great-sea-serpent-hunt-of-1817---1818-9798231267958/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7098857/image.jpg?v=638816572868330000InStockMXN99999DIEbook2025Inglés