A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness
The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of the World Wildlife Fund, was convinced that the Monster existed. So were senior scientists at London's Natural History Museum and Chicago University; they lost their jobs because they refused to renounce their belief in the creature. For decades, the scientific establishment was determined to quash attempts to investigate Loch Ness - until Nature, the world's greatest research journal, published an article by Peter Scott featuring underwater photo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4091-5873-8
- EAN: 9781409158738
- Produktnummer: 18304911
- Verlag: Orion Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.5 cm x D4.1 cm 703 g
- Gewicht: 703
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Gareth Williams is Emeritus Professor and former Dean of Medicine at the University of Bristol. His previous books for general readers are Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize of 2010), Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio and A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness. He is a past president of the Anglo-French Medical Society and has an honorary doctorate from the University of Angers. He is often to be found playing the flute or saxophone in and around Bristol.
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