The Resurrectionist

"The Resurrectionist" by E. B. Hudspeth contains the fictional biography about the mystical Dr. Spencer Black and “The Codex Extinct Animalia” - an extraordinary anatomy book of mythological creatures!

 

The famous anatomist and surgeon Dr. Spencer Black lived in Philadelphia in the late 1870s. He studied at Philadelphia's Academy of Medicine and developed a controversial hypothesis: What if the mythological creatures such as beasts, mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs really was the evolutionary ancestors of mankind? In E. B. Hudspeth’s "The Resurrectionist" you get two books. A fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black’s wild and mysterious life and his magnum opus "The Codex Extinct Animalia" with beautiful and detailed illustrations in black and white .