SCARY MONSTERS AND SUPER CREEPS

Dom Joly sets off around the world and this time he's monster hunting. He explores the Redwood Curtain in Northern California in search of Sasquatch. In Canada he visits Lake Okanagan hoping to catch a glimpse of the 30ft snake-like creature called Ogopogo. Near Lake Tele in Congo he risks his life tracking the vegetarian Sauropod Mokele-mbembe. And naturally he heads to Loch Ness, but for this hunt he has his family in tow. He treks across the Khumbu Valley in Nepal looking for Yeti, and in the hills above Hiroshima in Japan he enlists the help of a local man to find the Hibagon, a terribly smelly 'cave man ape'. Is there a slither of truth somewhere in the madness of monster hunting? From the safety of our armchairs we can dive into six fascinating destinations exploring the cultures that gave rise to these monster myths and ending up in some pretty hairy situations with our jolly Joly companion. 260pp, paperback.