Reddit reviews The Flight of Dragons

This is cool, but pretty derivative of this: http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Dragons-Peter-Dickinson/dp/0879518391

Ironically, the true story about the book and the movie are more exciting than the book itself, here.

Please go get yourself a copy of "The Flight of Dragons" by Peter Dickinson. He is a naturalist who set out to prove (with his limitations plainly in sight) that dragons could have existed in the natural world without violating any of the biological constants of evolution.

It's a magnificent book, one of my favorite things to read.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Flight-Dragons-Peter-Dickinson/dp/0879518391

Could it be the book The Flight of Dragons - Peter Dickenson

It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, here is the start of it if you are interested; shows many of the dragon designs
Flight of Dragons Movie Intro

The movie itself is about the author of the book being transported into the world of dragons from our world. He subsequently finds the magic of the dragon world is nothing more but science the people of that world don't know.

There is a book, called The Flight of Dragons which postulates a way in which dragons could have evolved, explaining many of the myths associated with them.

Essentially, they were gigantic gas bags, filled with hydrogen. They produced a potent acid which ate away at a calcium-rich structure in their bodies (which they replenished when they fed) to produce hydrogen. This gave them flight, and powered their firey breath.

It's well worth a read.

This, however, is always well worth a watch/listen.

Finally, I'd just like to point out that I've never played Skyrim, so I have no good dragon stories from there :(

Nicobobinus by Terry Jones.

It's been a while since I read it but I do remember liking it a lot. And I love The Enchanted Forest Chronicles!

Edit to add: Not a novel but if you like dragons you should check out The Flight of the Dragons by Peter Dickinson

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The Flight of Dragons is a beautifully illustrated book that deals with this question. The authors lay out assorted explanations for common features in dragon lore. Flight, fire-breathing, size, and so forth. Tons of scientific / biological explanations and possibilities. It's not a book arguing that dragons exist, but rather approaches it as though the authors walked up on a "typical" mythological dragon and said, "Huh! Wonder how this thing works?"

Good review. It's been a good while since I read HDM, but a friend of mine read them recently and expressed some of the same feelings about Lyra.

I think that Ropemaker trumps them both. It covers many of the same themes, but more succinctly and personally. But I might just have a soft spot for Peter Dickinson, cause I loved Flight of Dragons as a kid.