PETER BYRNE. FELLOW, The Royal Geographic Society, London, UK. MEMBER EMERITUS, The Explorers Club, NY., USA. Book contents . the author's autobiography. Birth, schooling, southern Ireland. Veteran, Royal Air Force, Air Sea Rescue, World War II.

, four years, South East Asia, Indian Ocean, 1943 to 1947. Tea planter, North Bengal, India, five years. High Himalaya Yeti (Abominable Snowmen) hunting and research, three and a half years. High Himalaya trekking guide, three years. Professional big game hunter, his own safari company, Nepal S.W Terai forests, seventeen years. Discoverer, in Nepal's southern jungles, of the largest Asian elephant of all time documented in a book - THE LAST GREAT ELEPHANT - published by Faber & Faber, USA - and a PBS documentary. Wildlife conservation work in Nepal' souther jungles, Nepal, ten years.

Bigfoot (Sasquatch) hunting and research, Pacific North West, USA., two major million-dollar projects, seven and a half years. International, professional/commercial, white-water river-running, eight years, with eleven First Descents, major rivers in Nepal Himalaya, Africa and China. Author of twenty published books, including six via major publishing houses in the USA., Canada and Japan.