From the back cover:
Monsters of Myth and Legend is a source book filled with the creatures that have appeared in the myths, fables, and legends of the world's cultures. Accurately recreated from historic sources, every creature's description contains a detailed background of the myth from which it sprang, an illustration of the creature, and all the necessary information to include each creature into any campaign or dungeon.
You can easily fit any beast in Monsters of Myth and Legend into your campaign in a manner consistent with its own mythos and allowing a true insight into the creature's nature.
Contained in this volume are the monsters of the:
American Indian
Australian Aborigine
Chinese
Greek
Irish
and Norse mythologies