num_pages: 176
description: Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti is the true story of a Texas millionaire's quest for the Abominable Snowman. Tom Slick led or sponsored several major expeditions to the Himalayas in search of the yeti between 1956 and 1959 and to the Pacific Northwest in pursuit of Bigfoot between 1959 and 1962. In addition to being an avid early cryptozoologist, Slick was an oilman, a visionary, an inventor, and a world traveler. In 1962, Slick died in a plane crash whose cause is still uncertain. The expeditions ended an much of his groundbreaking work was lost.Now, for the first time, Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti tells the story of Slick's passion for adventure and of his fascination with the ancient mystery of the Abominable Snowman. Never before have the details of Slick's searches and sightings, footprint finds, and months of trekking through mountains and jungles been organized or analyzed. With the cooperation of Slick's family and associates, Loren Coleman has located evidence that was thought to lost and included information about Slick and his discoveries that has never been published before.In the unbiased journalistic style that has made his Mysterious America and Curious Encounters bestsellers in the area of unexplained phenomena, Coleman also discusses pre- and post-Slick yeti/Bigfoot investigations, including the famous World Book expedition of 1960 led by Sir Edmund Hillary. Illustrated with photographs of the expeditions and the evidence collected, Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti is part mystery, part biography, and part high adventure.
language: English
title: Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti
publisher: Faber & Faber