Anatomy of a beast
Subtitle: obsession and myth on the trail of Bigfoot
By: Michael McLeod.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780520255715
Subjects: Sasquatch
Description: 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.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.