- 1987 edition, 340 pages
- Published by E.J.Brill
- Hardcover with dust jacket, green boards.
- Good plus condition. Some wear to the dust jacket especially the edges.
Illustrated and Indexed. Foreword by Bernard Heuvelmans. Do strange, large land animals unknown to science exist in remote corners of the globe? Rumours, stories, and reports about queer beasts located in the deadly unexplored swamps of Central West Africa have surfaced periodically for over two hundred years. The Pygmies living in the area describe features which taken at face value are most like a sauropod dinosaur.
These reports have been taken seriously by Dr. Roy Mackal and provoked him to lead two expeditions to look for sings of the huge creature referred to by some Africans as Mokele-mbembe.
This book describes his expeditions into the Likouala regionof the People's Republic of the Congo. They did not result in the capture or un-doubted sighting of the Mokele-mbembe, but did indicate that large unknown animals await discovery in this region, one of the largest biopreserves in the world, still largely unexplored by westerners.
In addition to the very full account of Mokele-mbembe, which Dr, Mackal believes could indeed be a kind of sauropod dinosaur, the book analyses reports of other still-unknown creatures inhabiting the Likouala swamps. These analyses are detailed, thorough, and provocative, leading us to conclude that there may, indeed, be several different members of the animal kingdom awaiting discovery in this vast and inhospitable region.
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