The wildlife photographer and popular author Vikas Khatri has written this thrilling book on mystery animals – all of them living in the world.

The world is a vast place, even today in the early years of the 21st century there are areas that man has not touched or in the least hardly explored. It is in these regions that you will find some mysterious creatures. Almas, a distant Russian cousin of Bigfoot, the original big hairy missing link of the North American mainland Ropen the flying reptile in the jungles of New Guinea. Yowie, the infamous Ape Man of the Australian bush, and Kangamato, the elusive winged creature of West Kenya. These are but just a few of the creatures that are out there, somewhere, just waiting for someone to find that elusive, positive proof of their existence.

Yeti, Skunk Ape, Giant Squid, Bigfoot, Loch Ness, Malaysian Dragon, Queensland Monster, Mongolian Death Worm and many more covered in this book will fight for your attention.

It is a collection of retold stories about 37 animals and creatures – giants as well as small and living in water or on the ground. Each one has been sighted rarely, and in different locations of the world. The description built from the words of mouth of many people makes it difficult to believe whether these creatures are real or imaginary. These animals perhaps live outside the range of human exploration. The accounts are true, nevertheless. You will find each chapter hugely absorbing.

When it comes to weird and unexplained phenomena, the question that arises is, are they really out there. Or is it all in our heads? Either way, it’s fun to explore, which this book does so well in such a clear, logical, and inviting sequence. The book examines both famous and overlooked subjects, including strange phenomena on the planet’s surface. It brings to the fore bizarre tales of incidents and the encounters – some of them hard to believe, with no bias given to a particular tale. Each title tosses up an open question that leads the reader to make up his own mind. The design displays chunks of text and an imaginative placement of photos.
Get ready to move into a world full of animals and creatures that have defied classification.

Great for children and adults alike.

About the Author
Vikas Khatri is a wildlife photographer. He was born in Canada in 1970. He is a strong votary of environmental pollution control and has traveled more than 40 countries. His contribution of more than 2000 articles in different newspapers and magazines has made him a household name.
His other popular volumes include, Endangered Animals of the World, 136 Incredible Coincidences, True Ghosts and Spooky Incidents, Dreams and Premonitions, Mysteries Around UFOs and Aliens and many more.


CONTENTS:
Introduction
1. Yeti
2. Bigfoot
3. Orang-Pendek
4. Chinese Wildman
5. Yowie
6. Skunk Ape
7. Piltdown Man
8. De Loys’s Ape
9. Minnesota Iceman
10. Oliver the Mutant Chimp
11. Almas
12. Nessie
13. Champ
14. Morgawr
15. Morag
16. Ogopogo
17. Manipogo
18. The Queensland Monster
19. The Mann Hill Monster
20. Zuiyo-maru Plesiosaur
21. Malaysian Dragon
22. White River Monster
23. Giant Squid
24. Giant Octopus and Globsters
25. El Chupacabras
26. Mothman
27. Jersey Devil
28. Loveland Frog
29. Dover Demon
30. Mongolian Death Worm
31. Mokele-Mbembe
32. Beast of Bodmin Moor
33. Thylacine
34. Thunderbird
35. Beast of Exmoor
36. Kangaroos in the United States
37. Beast of Gevaudan
References

AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK IS AS FOLLOWS:

Skunk Ape

Other mysterious primates of the world may be more famous, and more fearsome, and more celebrated in tantalisingly indistinct frames of 16mm film, but only one big hairy monster can rightfully claim to be the stinkiest: the Skunk Ape of the Florida Everglades.

          The creature is generally described as being about 2 m tall and 140 kg, covered in a dark fur the colour of mud, and bearing a distinct and far-ranging aroma redolent of an unholy mixture of skunk, rotten eggs and cow manure. “It stank awful, like a dog that hasn’t been bathed in a year and suddenly gets rained on,” Charlie Stoeckman said in an evocative account of his Skunk Ape sighting in the Florida Keys in 1977.

          Some accounts indicate that the Skunk Ape has been a part of Everglades lore for decades, but the swamp beast only became widely reported in the cultural aftermath of the 1967 Patterson Bigfoot film. In addition to being an era of Bigfoot mania, the 1970s were also the period when developers began a concerted foray into the Everglades. This led to large numbers of out-of-towners being exposed to the colourful legends of the local folk, who may have been willing to spin extravagant tall tales of the Skunk Ape just to fool the city slickers.

          Early stories of the Skunk Ape contained a conspiratorial edge, as it was rumoured that the government had captured a living specimen and the Army held it captive in a secret vault at Everglades National Park, until the Skunk Ape smashed through a concrete wall and escaped. There are dozens of sightings on record from throughout the ’70s, almost all of them containing a specification of the creature’s pungent odour. And on the whole, the tales are more tongue-in-cheek than most monster sightings usually are — the Skunk Ape is regarded as an old buddy rather than a terror of the wild, and in some cases, you can almost see the eyewitness winking at you in the words of his report.

          “Sometimes, sitting by the fire, I’d hear him walking in the brush,” Jim Spink said in describing a Skunk Ape encounter from 1975. “He’d approach, standing there in the jungle. I knew he was there. I’d say, ‘Hi, come on in. Have some coffee.’ But he never did.”

          Although Skunk Ape sightings have slacked off in recent years, the creature enjoyed something of a comeback in 1997. A guided tour group in Ochopee saw a large, apelike animal ambling through the outskirts of a swamp. Soon afterwards, Ochopee fire chief Vince Doerr saw a similar creature cross the road near his home and rush into the swamp. Doerr managed to take a distant snapshot of the supposed Skunk Ape before it disappeared.