From the beginnings of the Modern Infestation, Pamela Blanpied delivers a wide variety of information on the scientific facts currently known about dragons. Rather than relying on anecdotes or whimsy, she backs up her work with numerous surveys, studies, and up-to-date biological information. This book is the comprehensive guide to current dragon research. It may be a bit dry if technical information isn't your bag, but Blanpied's writing style is engaging, and small details will leap out and surprise you with wit and humour. Of particular interest are the photographs, of course, and the excerpts of the interview with Vlad. I long for an updated edition, with more recent results of the long-term studies mentioned in this work - the population tracking, feeding habits, and especially the budding interest in the percussive language. Highly reccommended for all serious students of dragons.

I am an avid fan of Dragon information and this book provided quite a lot of that. The book makes bold claims as to the validity of the existence of such creatures but never once produces any proof of their existence. They claim to have pictures but never show any save the ones where the Dragons are 'hidden'(or mimed as this is the term they use). The only year mentioned in the whole book is the published date(1980, not 81 as in the description). No addresses are published and only references to 3 pages of Bibliographical cited material. All in all, I was unimpressed with a book that was trying to convince me that Dragons do exists. I am currently trying to follow up on their claims, checking references and such.