Touchstone Books The Cryptozoology A to Z

Loren Coleman, a forty-year veteran of cryptozoological field expeditions and research, has written several books on nature's mysterious creatures, including "The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Mysterious America, " and "Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, " and has served as both on- and off-camera consultant to NBC-TV's "Unsolved Mysteries" and A&E's "Ancient Mysteries." Coleman is the mission cryptozoologist for the 1999 Nessa Project's search for the Loch Ness Monster, and a consultant to a forthcoming expedition in search of Mongolia's hairy wildmen, the Almas. He is a professor at the University of Southern Maine and lives in Portland.