Gnomes

This book is about the life and times of Gnomes. Their history and legends, housebuilding and clothing, courtship and marriage, and physiology. Learn about how Gnomes tell time, their use of acupuncture, aid to animals, and where they go on their honeymoon. Gnomes is the product of Rien Poortvliet and Wil Huygen's observation of the local gnome population in Holland. Until Gnomes was first published in Dutch in 1976, these friendly nocturnal creatures were only represented in folk lore - descriptions were often incomplete or simply inaccurate. Poortvliet and Huygen, having studied and interviewed gnomes for two decades, set out to fill this gap with their own encyclopedic tome. A classic...