Anatomy of a beast : obsession and myth on the trail of Bigfoot by McLeod, Michael, 1945- instant download

Anatomy of a beast : obsession and myth on the trail of Bigfoot by McLeod, Michael, 1945- instant download

222 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, 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. 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--From publisher description, Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index, The Essential Bigfoot. Harrison -- The missing link -- Bluff Creek -- The backup man -- The Klamath Knot -- Obsession. Mountain devils -- Show time -- Bigfoot daze -- Cryptid wars -- Reason and Truth. The goblin universe -- Reason and truth -- Bigfoot's kitchen