The Yowie

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.