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Anatomy of a Beast Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
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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 thinkingand how obsession and myth are created out of it.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520255715 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 01 Jan 2009 |
DEWEY: | 001.944 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 238 |
Weight: | 485g |
Height: | 235mm |
Width: | 159mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |