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Extraordinary Animals Revisited: From Singing Dogs To Serpent Kings

Extraordinary Animals Revisited (CFZ Press: Bideford, 2007); ISBN 1-905723-17-1. With a foreword by Jonathan Downes, Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology. Large-format pb, 313 pp, illustrated throughout, refs, index. UK £14.99. Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, and directly from the publisher in quantities, online at: www.cfz.org.uk.

For an exclusive interview with Dr Shuker concerning this book, conducted by fellow cryptozoologist/mysteries investigator Nick Redfern, please click here.

This delightful book is the long-awaited, greatly-expanded new edition of one of Dr Karl Shuker’s much-loved early volumes, Extraordinary Animals Worldwide. It is a fascinating celebration of what used to be called romantic natural history, examining a dazzling diversity of animal anomalies, creatures of cryptozoology, and all manner of other thought-provoking zoological revelations and continuing controversies down through the ages of wildlife discovery.

Handsomely supplemented by a vista of enchanting Victorian engravings to evoke the spirit of the period from which the inspiration for this book is drawn, Extraordinary Animals Revisited offers an enthralling introduction to a veritable menagerie of truly astonishing beasts:

From singing dogs to serpent kings, pseudo-plesiosaurs to quasi-octopuses, hounds with two noses and birds with four wings, the Sandwell Valleygator and New Mexico’s medicine wolf, cobras that crow and snake gods that dance, giant solifugids and rodent colossi, devil-birds and devil-pigs, furry woodpeckers and marsupial hummingbirds, archangel feathers and the scales of the Eden serpent, scorpion-stones and elephant-pearls, tales of the peacock’s tail, parachuting palm civets, missing megapodes, blue rhinoceroses, glutinous globsters, anomalous aardvarks, a platypus from Colorado, man-sized spiders from the Congo, de Loys’s lost Venezuelan ape, Margate’s marine elephant, a flying hedgehog called Tizzie-Wizzie, a mellifluous mollusc called Molly, India’s once (and future?) pink-headed duck, the squeaking deathshead, the vanquished bird-god of New Caledonia, and much much more – all waiting to amaze and amuse, a pageant of natural and unnatural history.

"Kudos to all involved in bringing this classic text back into print--and to Dr Shuker for substantially updating it. Any reader interested in wildlife, animal anomalies, and/or cryptozoology will want a copy of this volume in his-or-her personal library. Worth twice the price, and then some."
   Michael D. Newton (author of The Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology), Amazon.com review, 16 September 2007.

"Fuelling the imagination to the most captivating degree, Extraordinary Animals Revisited is a compelling, thought-provoking and hugely enjoyable guide to some of the most unusual animals ever documented...A wonderful book."
   Beyond Magazine, January 2008.

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