A BOOK OF GIANTS - 25 stories about giants through the ages: Giants and Giantesses through the ages

Mankind has ever been fascinated by extraordinary aspects of humanity, but none so much as giants.
Many ancient gods, and indeed kings and emperors, were said to be vast in size: witness, for instance, the colossal statues of Egypt, China or the South Seas. But the palm for bigness must go to those giant beings whom we find amid the chaos in the East: like that Tiamat from whom the Babylonian god Bel formed heavens and earth; and Purushu of the Hindu Vedas, whose severed head was sufficient ...