THE YOWIE

<p><strong>Australia's most baffling zoological mystery!</strong></p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>Since 1981 PAUL CROPPER and TONY HEALY have collaborated on many projects. Over the past 30 years they have searched for lake monsters hairy giants out-of-place big cats and other semi-legendary animals in Fiji North America the Bahamas Iceland Ireland Great Britain Nepal Malaysia and in every state and territory of Australia.</p>