This Cryptid World: A Global Survey of Undiscovered Beasts (© Dr Karl
Shuker/Brian Rau/Herb Lester Associates)
I'm very happy to announce that This Cryptid World, my 31st book,
is now published, and I'm equally excited to reveal that in terms of its format
it is totally unlike any publication that I have ever been involved with
before. This is because instead of being a conventional book or bookazine, it
is a double-sided fold-out poster guide-book!
Scientists estimate that more than 90 per
cent of nature's species have yet to be discovered. With that in mind, this
enthralling, unique cryptozoological publication asks you to set aside any
scepticism, and allow it be your guide on a fascinating global tour of cryptids
- creatures whose existence has yet to be formally substantiated by science.
Shocking desert worms, mystery cats, sea
and lake monsters, man-beasts of many kinds, and countless other cryptids have
been sighted across the globe, and reports continue. Some accunts seem
credulous, others are more authoritative, yet all present us with the same
question: can it be true?
This sumptuous fold-out double-sided poster
guide with text by yours truly and illustrations by Brian Rau documents an
extremely diverse range of mystery beasts, outlining their characteristics,
location, and sightings, all illustrated and charted on a world map. Its large
format works equally effectively as a fold-out guide-book or as a double-sided
poster, and comes in its own very elegant bespoke folder together with an
additional stand-up 'tent' postcard depicting a jackalope.
Available to order from all good
bookstores, and directly from the publisher, Herb Lester Associates,
in quantities or singly. NB – it is not currently available directly from
Amazon (their required discount was felt to be too substantial).
A few
of Brian Rau's very stylish, diagrammatic cryptid illustrations featured on the
reverse of my text and annotated world globe (© Dr Karl Shuker/Brian Rau/Herb
Lester Associates)
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