Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #436130 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Synopsis
Australia's most baffling zoological mystery! During the early colonial era, Australia's Aborigines often warned British settlers to beware of huge, ape-like creatures that lurked in the rugged mountains and deep forests of the island continent. Their people, they said, had been encountering the hairy horrors since time immemorial. They knew them by many names, including doolagarl, thoolagarl, jurrawarra and tjangara. Soon the colonists, too, began to experience hair-raising encounters with the hulking, foul-smelling creatures, which they referred to as "Australian apes", "yahoos" or "youries". Today, they are generally referred to as yowies. The list of modern-day eyewitnesses includes zoologists, rangers, surveyors and members of the elite Special Air Service Regiment. This book chronicles the yowie saga from the pre-colonial era to the present day. It contains over 300 carefully documented eyewitness reports and a vast amount of other data, much of which suggests that the damnably elusive creatures really do exist. The authors also critically examine the many theories that have been put forward to explain - or explain away - Australia's most baffling zoological mystery.

Customer Reviews

"The Yowie" An Eye Opening Read.
Healy and Cropper have written a excellent book on the problem of the "Yowie" phenomenon.I found this work to be very interesting indeed,as were the authors theories about the possible nature/origin of the beast/s.

yowie:search for australia's bigfoot
I have always held an interest in crypto zoology, but this book does the subject no favours. Little in the way of analysis and evaluation.


G.J.Churchill, MA