As custodians of unique and rare treasures, nothing makes us more proud than finding them the right home. When you've read these stories, then you'll know the reason why you'll probably never see the Loch Ness Monster! We have new biographic information on the people integral to the LNM story, and new eyewitness accounts, illustrations and photos have been unearthed or have joined the collective pool.

Example: Watson claimed on his blog and in his review of Hunting Monsters that I have been groomed – his word – by Loch Ness expert Dick Raynor, since sceptics require that the chalice of Loch Ness scepticism be passed down across the generations, and, furthermore, that I have been turned to the cult of scepticism via the nefarious chicanery and allure of an older man.

Millions of years ago, the northern tip of Scotland was a separate island, until it crashed into the mainland. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He started out as a journalist, studying at the Edinburgh College of Commerce, and winning the Fraser Award aged just 21 for his writing.

The illustrations provide opportunities to discuss the existence - or not - of the Loch Ness Monster, castles, wildlife in and around Loch Ness and waterways of Scotland.A new edition, rewritten and with fresh new images, of a Pitkin classic that examines the evidence and the various sitings on this perennial mystery. Ronald Binns’s 1983 The Loch Ness Mystery Solved – produced with assistance from Rod Bell (though he doesn’t get an authorship credit) – is a classic work of scholarship and scepticism ( Binns 1983). Though later revealed as a hoax, this image fueled the mania surrounding the sightings, and is used on the dust jacket and as the frontispiece to Gould’s book. Should I be writing about it, and encouraging an interest in it, on a blog ostensibly devoted to the scientific study of the natural world? We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.

It's no more real than the big green monster our great-grandpa thought he saw in the loch when he was wee. I photographed this male Red deer adjacent to Loch Knockie, which is just a few hundred metres to the east of Loch Ness.

He liked the book very much and after a few times reading and explaining in German he understand what is written. She is the author more than 20 books for children of all ages including the Fabled Beasts Chronicles and Spellchasers trilogy for middle grade readers, Mind Blind for young teens, and picture books The Tale of Tam Linn and The Secret of the Kelpie. Surprisingly informative and factual (if that's the right word for such a subject) about all the lore and history. We all know that indexes are difficult and time consuming to compile, but lacking one entirely is not really excusable – even a short one consisting of keywords is better than nothing. Binns notes that Watson has been useful in uncovering new data but more impressive are the substantial number of occasions in which Binns corrects or contests Watson’s interpretations.

he “finds Naish’s approach congenial because he seeks to rescue cryptozoology from the naïve literalists” (p.Natasa Ilincic is an artist and illustrator originally from Croatia and now living and working in Edinburgh.