Comments on: Oudemans’ Classic Resurfaces

By: daledrinnon

daledrinnon — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:33:03 +0000

BTW, I also had a copy of the Loch Ness Monster pamphlet, which I donated to the SITU. THAT copy probably has gone missing as well!

By: ladd

ladd — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:24:09 +0000

Kudos to you Loren and Cosimo for bringing these classics back. They’re priceless.

By: theo

theo — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:18:53 +0000

Ah, Oudemans… As he was a Dutch person (I live in the Netherlands) and onetime director of a famous Dutch zoo and at one time even living in the same city as I did, I was able to investigate a bit. Just some weeks ago I was shown a unique manuscript of Oudemans in his own hand writing on a zoological topic, it still sported his old telephone number and signature, apart from his hand writing – I will check its title again – this mss has not been published at all, anywhere.

Apart from his standard and indeed hard to find classic (I knew of a collector who had two copies), I also have his pamphlet entitled “The Loch Ness Monster”, Brill, 1934 which is richly illustrated, making it perhaps one of the earliest publications on the Loch Ness mystery. That same publisher also published in 1953 the intriguing pamphlet “De Grote Zeeslang”(“the big Sea Serpent”) by B.H. Stricker.

By: fuzzy

fuzzy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:43:25 +0000

Always wonderful to see the Classics return.

By: daledrinnon

daledrinnon — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:24:10 +0000

I have been an Oudemans fan since I first found the book–which I first saw in Sanderson’s library, BTW. I knew of his work AFTER I saw Heuvelmans’ book and I was rather surprised because I already disagreed with the basic theory: however, Oudemans was a very intelligent, very determined and very persuasive writer despite the fact that he was not writing in his native language. Like Heuvelmans, I feel like I can get inside the man’s head and see why he said certain things a certain way, and Oudemans made several statements that were extremely shrewd deductions and most other writers on the subject missed.

By: Ceroill

Ceroill — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:38:59 +0000

Good going, Loren! Any idea on a projected price range for the new edition?

By: richard_from_idaho

richard_from_idaho — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:02:39 +0000

Great idea! There are many books that need to be made available again.

By: busterggi

busterggi — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:48:32 +0000

’bout time! I’ve been looking for a copy of this for decades with no luck (well, some luck, I have a copy of his booklet on Loch Ness).

Keep the good stuff coming!