St Hauda’s Land is home to many beasts and birds, as well as to rare creatures found nowhere else in the world. This little bestiary considers what some of them mean to the novel. Narwhals In the water huge, elegant bodies moved. A narwhal pod. Funny, she thought, how invisible such huge creatures could make …
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Bad news today for the large flying fox, which has just been given an extinction warning. Apparently it could be flapping its way to the land of Dodos and Tasmanian Wolves in as little as six years. I think it’s easy for people in places like the UK to overlook the human and economic factors …
They found a unicorn in Tuscany last year…
I have been drawing some unicorns of various kinds. Made up animals are one of the things I like most in the world, so they seemed like a nice thing to draw. The kind of unicorns I always liked in folklore were the timid ones that hid in the woods, rather than the big brash …