| The
most comprehensive,
authoritative
work
on
Australia's
most
baffling
zoological
mystery.
Includes
120 illustrations,
an index,
and a complete
catalog
of cases
from
1789 to 2006.
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THE YOWIE
In
Search of Australia's Bigfoot
By Tony Healy and Paul Cropper
Foreword by
Loren Coleman
Anomalist Books
Large
7 x 11 Trade Paperback
ISBN:
1933665165
336 pages with 120 illustrations!
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The Yowie File |
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 encounter- ing 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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
by Loren Coleman
Explanatory Notes
Introduction:
Gorillas in Our Midst
1. Aborigines and the Yowie
2.
The Colonial Era 1788 - 1901
3. The Early Modern Era 1901 –
1975
4. The Modern Era 1975 – Present
5.
Littlefoot - The Junjudee
6. Summarising the
Evidence
7. Who or What is the Yowie?
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Appendix A: A Catalogue of Cases
Appendix
B: Yowie-related Place Names
Bibliography
Index
For
the latest information about the Yowie, visit the authors' website:
The Yowie File.
About the Authors
PAUL CROPPER became
fascinated by
the yowie mystery in 1976, when he uncovered several long- forgotten
eyewitness reports in colonial-era news- papers. Although then only 14
years old, he began visiting the Blue Mountains, to the west of his
home in Sydney, searching for proof of the creatures’ existence.
Canberra-based
TONY HEALY,
who had already become intrigued by the bigfoot/sasquatch
phenomenon while working in Canada in 1969, also became involved in
yowie research in the mid-1970s.
Since 1981 they
have collaborated on many projects, notably in co-authoring Out of the Shadows: Mystery
Animals of Australia, which contained a lengthy chapter
about the elusive yowie. 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.
Watch a video interview
with the authors.
| What they're
saying...
The Yowie won the "Best Individual Cryptid Book of
2006" Award:
"Tony Healy and Paul Cropper have written the most compelling book this
year on one specific group of cryptids. It gathers the best historical
and contemporary accounts, evidence, and theories on these
less-than-fully-understood (outside of Australia) and little-recognized
unknown hairy hominoids. In one fell swoop, this book may stand up for
years as the one to consult about these creatures. What the co-authors
did for this unknown "species" - Yowies, all - was this year unmatched
in any other literary treatment in cryptozoology.The Yowie is a model
of organization and completeness to be followed by future authors who
wish to publish their examinations of a body of data on one cryptid." –
Loren Coleman, Cryptomundo
"The
Yowie is a milestone work...It is no small feat to create a classic and
thorough reference book that is easily readable by both the everyday
person and the hardcore researcher but this is what Healy and Cropper
have
done..." – Craig Heinselman, Crypto
"At
last! ... The Yowie –
In Search Of
Australia’s Bigfoot,
the book that Tony Healy and Paul Cropper have been working on for the
past seven years. It was worth the wait: this book is far and away the
best thing ever written about the yowie mystery. It is destined to
become an instant cryptozoological classic..." – Cass, Dean Harrison's Australian Yowie
Research
"...perhaps the best survey to date of the Yowie mystery." – Daniel Perez, Bigfoot Times
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