Flying Snake -Volume One

<p>Richard Muirhead is probably the best researcher that I know. He has what I am sure Charlie Fort would have called a ‘Wild Talent’ in that you can let him loose in any library or archive and with the innate powers of a truffle-hound he will extract all sorts of pieces of arcane knowledge that one would never have suspected to be there.</p><p>For example about a decade ago he phoned me telling me he was going to look in the archive of the Hong Kong Yacht Club. “Whatever for?” I asked and received a completely non-committal reply. That evening he telephoned me to tell me that he had found a hitherto unsuspected sea-serpent report. That’s just the kind of guy he is.</p><p>Some years ago he started his own magazine <em>Flying Snake</em> which has proven to be a wildly eclectic and thematically diverse publication that every few months continues to delight and amuse. Here in book form is the first volume of the collected editions.</p><p>Enjoy</p><p>Jon Downes (Director Centre for Fortean Zoology)</p>