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Roaring Dorset! Encounters with Big Cats

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Author: Merrily Harpur
Publisher: Roving Press
Price: Paperback £4.99

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If you needed any fresh evidence that the British Isles are simply stuffed with strangeness, the next few books will certainly convince you.

First up, a book devoted to big cat sightings in just one modest-sized English county - and it’s packed with them. Harpur runs the Dorset Big Cats organisation, and has collected hundreds of reports over the past few years. Here they all are, presented in a gazetteer of locations.

Panthers, pumas, lynxes and maybe even lions and tigers have all been glimpsed by credible witnesses in delightful Dorset. The density of accounts is almost overwhelming and begs the question - if Dorset has this many big cats on the loose, how many exist in wilder parts of the UK?

Harpur tackles questions of this sort in a useful end chapter on ‘Current Theories’. An essential purchase for big cat lovers.

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