3.5
A Monstrous Commotion
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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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Zoe Christodoulou
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“As a kid I was briefly intrigued by the Loch Ness Monster, but was turned off by all of the books I found on the subject - so many pictures of men in diving costumes and scientific diagrams of sonar and the like. I was a dumb kid, I wanted to see the monster!
Little would I have expected then that the most interesting thing about the whole affair were the people who devoted their lives to finding the monster or, at the very least, scamming a few people into believing their version of the monster. Williams presents the history of the Loch Ness adventure in an entertaining manner which is as objective as I can imagine a telling of this story to be, though die-hard believers may disagree and find the final chapters unfairly let the air out of cherished evidence.
A funny, always interesting, and enjoyable page-turner.”
Karen Duff
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About Gareth Williams
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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