Anatomy of a Beast
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 thinking-and how obsession and myth are created out of it.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Anatomy of a Beast “
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
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Mcleod
Michael McLeod is a writer, producer, and director who has created documentaries for PBS, the PBS series Frontline, the Discovery Channel, and other national venues.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Mcleod
- 2009, 222 Seiten, Maße: 15,9 x 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: University of California
- ISBN-10: 0520255712
- ISBN-13: 9780520255715
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Anatomy of a Beast “
"McLeod approaches Bigfoot culture the way Susan Orlean approached orchids ... artfully traces our culture's obsession to walking man-beasts."--San Francisco Chronicle "A funny, well-written memoir about chasing down the believers."--Bookforum "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
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