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Carregando... Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (1961)de Ivan T. Sanderson
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) ElentarriLT | Mar 24, 2020 |  This is probably the seminal book on the topic of anthropoid cryptids, still. He covers the whole world, with evidence of all kinds, and intriguing theories that never get in the way of asking the questions. And there are some tid-bits in this book that still remain entirely uninvestigated: why the "little red men of the trees" still gets no Google hints is beyond me. While his prose is far from deathless, his lively storytelling skill is undeniable; while I could wish he'd put more of the scientist and less of the reporter into the book, it is fairly solid reporting. Both the most interesting and worst bit of this book is its age: some books are simply so tied to the time when they were written that it's impossible to see them as other than dated. The good thing about this is that it came out just as the world began to be seen as fully explored, when rugged men who wandered into an unknown forest for days with just a gun and a canteen were still alive and corresponded; just as cryptozoology was beginning to be what it is today, and before Bigfoot had become a pop-cultural phenomenon; so the evidence he presents here is almost all of it up-close and personal, and (compared to much modern Bigfoot research, at least) untainted by the romance of what has become a modern myth. On the other hand, much of the modern evidence is simply not there yet, even with edits to bring the book up to date to 1968, and so it's only the beginning of the story. And it's quite inescapable that his attitude toward race is still very much that of the early 20th century explorer, secure in the knowledge that white people aren't *like* other people; it's not as horrid as it could be, and very much in tune with the time in which he wrote - he generally finds the "natives" superior to the whites, in a noble-savage sort of way - but it's inescapable, and makes him much harder to respect: particularly in a book that's meant explore the meaning of the category of "human". This book is now freely available online at sacred-texts.org . (  ) melannen | Oct 14, 2009 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Scottish zoologist IVAN TERRANCE SANDERSON (1911-1973) coined the word cryptozoology and first used it in print in this hard-to-find 1961 work, the story of "hairy hominids" across the planet from the very beginnings of human civilization until the mid 20th century. With its scientific, anthropological approach, this is one of the first books to treat the phenomenon of "Bigfoot" seriously, and introduced a groundbreaking classification system for the spectrum of subhumanoids. "I am happy that a whole new generation of cryptozoologists-in-training will be able to read Ivan T. Sanderson's classic book," says cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction. "This book opened the minds of many to the vastness of the hominoid reports... and spotlighted for people that Bigfoot/Sasquatch research was the next area for exploration in North America." This new edition, complete with the original illustrations and maps, is part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. LOREN COLEMAN is author of numerous books of cryptozoology, including Bigfoot : The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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