The complete visitor's guide to Loch Ness, Inverness and the Loch Ness monster - A Ownns

Loch Ness is one of the most popular destinations in the world and, with its fabled monster, it plays host to over 500, 000 visitors every year, boasting more interest than Stonehenge and other popular attractions put together. At last, here is a long-awaited, definitive guidebook, covering Inverness, known as the capital of - and gateway to - the Highlands as well as the isolated villages surrounding Loch Ness. It includes easy-to-access listings on accommodation, visitor attractions, restaurants and sections on children, entertainment and nightlife, shopping for all needs, transport and leisure activities. Andy Owen also examines the history of the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster, but unlike other tourist booklets does not blur the edges of fact and fantasy - for this is where the realists and romanticists part company. Having interviewed the leading Nessie researchers, the author gives a facts-only account of the scientific search for Britain's most elusive resident. Meet Adrian Shine, self-taught naturalist and founder and leader of the Loch Ness project; Alistair Boyd and David Martin, dubbed `the men who killed off the Loch Ness Monster' after exposing the infamous Surgeon's Photograph as a hoax; illustrious American Dr Bob Rhines, who took the famous underwater photographs of Nessie;