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The Classic of Mountains and Seas
A geography of a world that never existed, and of the one that did. The Classic of Mountains and Seas walks mountain by mountain across ancient China and beyond it, listing rivers, minerals and plants, and the creatures that live there: a fish with a bird's head whose flesh cures warts, a nine-tailed fox that eats people, a bird that cries its own name and foretells drought. Beyond the seas lie the lands of the long-armed and the one-eyed, the kingdom of women, the Queen Mother of the West, and the gods to be appeased with jade and sacrificial cockerels. Part bestiary, part ritual handbook, part mythology, it is the richest source for early Chinese legend. This complete new English translation covers all the mountain classics and the classics of the regions within and beyond the seas.
