FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2007-09-09

Extraordinary Animals Revisited by Dr Karl Shuker

CFZ Press are delighted to announce the publication of this new book by one of the world’s most renowned authors of books on cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. CFZ Press are quite possibly the world’s most prolific publishers of books on the subject, and this is only the first of several books planned by Dr Shuker.

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.

·                                 Paperback: 328 pages

·                                 Publisher: CFZ Press (6 Aug 2007)

·                                 Language English

·                                 ISBN-10: 1905723172

·                                 ISBN-13: 978-1905723171

·                                 Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 2 cm

For an in-depth interview with Dr Shuker to mark the release of the book:

http://monsterusa.blogspot.com/2007/09/karl-shuker-extraordinary-animals.html

To buy a copy of the book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extraordinary-Animals-Revisited-Jonathan-Downes/dp/1905723172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-9829663-4753403?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189334882&sr=8-1

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

A biography of Dr Shuker can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Shuker

Review copies are available, and Dr Shuker is also available for interview. Please contact Jon or Corinna on 01237 431413