Never has Dr. Jeremy Fishleder forgotten the massive creature he glimpsed as a child, staring back at him from the edge of the Florida wilds. Strange and terrifying, the encounter would go on to inform his dual careers: one, as a professor of zoology, the other as a less formal researcher of the weird, probing the obscure landscape where Bigfoot and any other half-mythic beast might just be hiding.

Then, prompted by a health scare and an academic shake-up, Jeremy takes a long-overdue sabbatical for a road trip around the United States, all to places of strange repute. Three recent graduates decide to join him and, as they delve into the wilds of earth and steel, together they discover secrets hidden in the shadows of outer as well as inner nature.

Far more sweeping and unique than a typical "run from the monster", Skunk Ape Semester examines not only the wondrous weirdness in our midst, but its manifold legacy in our culture and our psyche.

"On the Road meets The X-Files!"

-- Marla Miller, author and columnist

"A journey of the heart, mind and soul. I was captivated from the first page."

-- Syrie James, bestselling author of Dracula, My Love

"One of the best books I've read this past decade."

-- Leslie Ann Moore, bestselling author of The Griffin's Daughter Trilogy

"A love song to Fortean Americana...a truly unique book."

-- Richard Freeman, author and researcher