WELCOME TO THE CFZ BLOG NETWORK: COME AND JOIN THE FUN

Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

Search This Blog

WATCH OUR WEEKLY WEBtv SHOW

SUPPORT OTT ON PATREON

SUPPORT OTT ON PATREON
Click on this logo to find out more about helping CFZtv and getting some smashing rewards...

SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

Check it out here


Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...




Sunday, April 04, 2010

CARL PORTMAN'S `A DAINTREE DIARY` IS NOW OUT

After months of work, we are very happy to announce the release of:



A Daintree Diary - Tales from Travels to the Daintree Rainforest in Tropical North Queensland, Australia by Carl Portman


Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: CFZ (24 Feb 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1905723539
ISBN-13: 978-1905723539
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm

FROM THE BACK COVER: In the increasingly technological and urbanised world of the early 21st Century, we in the west are becoming increasingly sedentary. There are wild places left on the planet, but most people are content to watch programmes about them on the television. Not so Carl Portman, spider expert living in Oxfordshire, UK.


With two `Sheila's' in tow (one of them being his long suffering partner Susan) Carl cuts a swathe of genial chaos across the North Australian rainforest as he hunts for the elusive whistling spider while the girls try to work on their suntans. This is not only a highly informative book for the amateur entomologist, but is one of the most amusing and endearing books you will read all year. But now it's your turn. In the words of a long forgotten punk band called The Desperate Bicycles "It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it!"
Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)