Loch Ness Understood by Tony Harmsworth is the most comprehensive Loch Ness book this century. It is an update of Loch Ness, Nessie and Me, first published in 2010. It exposes fakes, hoaxes and pseudoscience and shows how the story grew from an interesting local legend into the most famous mystery of modern times. Whether or not you believe in the mystery, how that mystery grew from humble beginnings to world fame is a fascinating story in its own right and this book explains all. However, it contains more than just the monster. It is a GEOGRAPHY of Loch Ness; the BIOGRAPHY of Nessie, the world's favourite monster and the AUTOBIOGRAPHY of Tony Harmsworth, the best known Loch Ness commentator. It is the first book on the subject to be penned by someone who has lived overlooking Loch Ness for more than thirty years. A SUPERB READ FROM BEGINNING TO END

This book brings the Loch Ness Monster into the twenty-first century. However, this is not a pro or anti Nessie publication. It strips the eighty year old mystery down to its basic components and presents a wholly new slant on the world's most loved, and most enduring mystery. Written with authority and a deep understanding of the mystery, the expeditions and the individual researchers, this is the first book to have been penned by a loch-side resident intimately involved in presenting the subject to the public for three decades. For anyone who wants to get to the truth about Loch Ness, this book is essential reading. However, It has more to offer than just the monster. Within its pages we discover how the Loch Ness Centre was conceived and created, and how this changed the lives of the author and his wife. Success and failure are treated equally and the author's relationship with the researchers, the local businesses and even the black Benedictine monks is explained with great humour and pathos. This is a GEOGRAPHY of the world's most famous body of freshwater, the BIOGRAPHY of the most endearing monster of our time and the AUTOBIOGRAPHY of the best known commentator. All of this makes the book a most delightful and exciting read whether or not there be a Nessie in the great depths of Loch Ness. Review: "A fascinating book that caught my attention immediately. You can see that Tony has spent many years correlating the historical and geological information. Not only does this book approach the subject from a scientific stance, but also incorporates local mythology. The painstaking research Tony has provided in regards investigation and research into the mysteries of the Loch and its possible residents is also a delightful and informative read. One of the best books I have ever read on the subject of Loch Ness and of course... Nessie." WELL WORTH A READ STEVE MERA - EDITOR PHENOMENA MAGAZINE

In a breathtaking hundred pages, Tony takes you from the arrival of Mesolithic people in the Highlands of Scotland in 6000BC, through Scotland's story right up to the Scottish Parliament of today. Enjoy learning about the transition from hunter gathering to farming, the invasion of the Picts and their long rule before the Scots muscled into Argyll. As the Scottish nation emerges, learn of elected kings, the injustices of William Shakespeare's assassination of Macbeth's character and the effects on Scotland of the conquering of England by the Normans in 1066AD. After Normanisation comes the annexation of Scotland by Edward I, William Wallace, followed by the true Braveheart's struggle for freedom and eventual independence, only to have it all literally given away to the arch enemy by Scotland's own king less than three hundred years later. Finally, experience the pathos of the Jacobite uprisings but then thrill to the possibility of the nation rising once more as the new millennium dawns.