Victorian scientist R.W. Greasebeam presents a series of letters - by a ninth-century Viking, thirteenth-century Chinese girl, and a Prussian cartographer, among others - recording the discovery of the world's most fearsome dragons. But ... was Bjorn of Bromme one of the greatest explorers of the Viking Age or just a simple-minded, lice-infested Barbarian with a passion for beach volleyball? Could Soong Mei Ying really have discovered every Asiatic Dragon known to Serpentology, or was she just a 13th-century teenager who wanted to travel and meet people? Did Dr E.F. Liebermann perish after discovering the Common Green Draak, also known as the 'Awful Gurgler', or was he suffering from a severe bout of jungle madness?
