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Item specifics
- Condition
- PublishedOn
- 2011-04-04
- Title
- Anatomy of a Beast
- ISBN
- 9780520269866
- Book Title
- Anatomy of a Beast : Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Nature, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
- Topic
- Unexplained Phenomena, Folklore & Mythology, Animals / General
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 238 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520269861
ISBN-13
9780520269866
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99377356
Product Key Features
Book Title
Anatomy of a Beast : Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
Number of Pages
238 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Unexplained Phenomena, Folklore & Mythology, Animals / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-020955
Reviews
"McLeod approaches Bigfoot culture the way Susan Orlean approached orchids . . . artfully traces our culture's obsession to walking man-beasts."-- San Francisco Chronicle, "McLeod approaches Bigfoot culture the way Susan Orlean approached orchids . . . artfully traces our culture's obsession to walking man-beasts."--San Francisco Chronicle, "An entertaining and thoroughly researched travelogue, as much about America's need for mystery as the elusive denizens of the Klamath forests."--Willamette Week, "With prose that's both sensitive and probing, McLeod explores this very human aspect, the tendency to see pictures in the clouds, UFOs in the sky, and fragments of evolution in the woods."--Foreword, "McLeod writes evocatively of a rich, wondrous ecological area known as 'The Klamath Knot.'"-- Los Angeles Times Book Review, "An entertaining and thoroughly researched travelogue, as much about America's need for mystery as the elusive denizens of the Klamath forests."-- Willamette Week, _McLeod approaches Bigfoot culture the way Susan Orlean approached orchids . . . artfully traces our culture's obsession to walking man-beasts._, "With prose that's both sensitive and probing, McLeod explores this very human aspect, the tendency to see pictures in the clouds, UFOs in the sky, and fragments of evolution in the woods."-- Foreword, _An entertaining and thoroughly researched travelogue, as much about America_s need for mystery as the elusive denizens of the Klamath forests._, With prose that's both sensitive and probing, McLeod explores this very human aspect, the tendency to see pictures in the clouds, UFOs in the sky, and fragments of evolution in the woods., An entertaining and thoroughly researched travelogue, as much about America's need for mystery as the elusive denizens of the Klamath forests., _With prose that's both sensitive and probing, McLeod explores this very human aspect, the tendency to see pictures in the clouds, UFOs in the sky, and fragments of evolution in the woods._, "McLeod writes evocatively of a rich, wondrous ecological area known as 'The Klamath Knot.'"--Los Angeles Times Book Review, McLeod approaches Bigfoot culture the way Susan Orlean approached orchids . . . artfully traces our culture's obsession to walking man-beasts.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
001.944
Table Of Content
Introduction Part I. The Essential Bigfoot 1. Harrison 2. The Missing Link 3. Bluff Creek 4. The Backup Man 5. The Klamath Knot Part II. Obsession 6. Mountain Devils 7. Show Time 8. Bigfoot Daze 9. Cryptid Wars Part III. Reason and Truth 10. The Goblin Universe 11. Reason and Truth 12. Bigfoot's Kitchen Notes Select Bibliography Index Illustrations
Synopsis
Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot's rise to tabloid stardom in a fast-paced account that begins with his own journey to investigate a famous 1967 film clip of a Bigfoot in a California forest. McLeod proceeds to uncover a trail of clues reaching from the late nineteenth century, when a few ambitious, imaginative naturalists and explorers synthesized historical and indigenous folklore with Darwinian ideas and speculated that a proto-hominid "missing link" might still be alive in remote areas. That speculation would eventually inspire a colorful cast of loggers, hunters, con artists, and businessmen in the twentieth century to create the modern myth of Bigfoot, all of them angling for a piece of a monster that the media and the public still can't get enough of. Told through vividly narrated interviews and anecdotes, Anatomy of a Beast offers a unique perspective on the deep roots of counterfactual thinking-and how obsession and myth are created out of it., Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot's rise to tabloid stardom in a fast-paced account that begins with his own journey to investigate a famous 1967 film clip of a Bigfoot in a California forest. McLeod proceeds to uncover a trail of clues reaching from the late nineteenth century, when a few ambitious, imaginative naturalists and explorers synthesized historical and indigenous folklore with Darwinian ideas and speculated that a proto-hominid "missing link" might still be alive in remote areas. That speculation would eventually inspire a colorful cast of loggers, hunters, con artists, and businessmen in the twentieth century to create the modern myth of Bigfoot, all of them angling for a piece of a monster that the media and the public still can't get enough of. Told through vividly narrated interviews and anecdotes, Anatomy of a Beast offers a unique perspective on the deep roots of counterfactual thinking--and how obsession and myth are created out of it.
LC Classification Number
QL89.2.S2M38 2011
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