Anatomy of a Beast

Anatomy of a Beast
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0520943163
ISBN-13 : 9780520943162
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Book Synopsis Anatomy of a Beast by : Michael McLeod

Download or read book Anatomy of a Beast written by Michael McLeod and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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