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Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti
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.
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.
176 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1989
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About the author
Loren Coleman
89 books66 followersLoren Coleman is one of the world's leading cryptozoologists. An honorary member of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, and several other international organizations, he is also a Life Member of the International Society of Cryptozoology. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursue of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969.
Coleman has written seventeen books and more than three hundred articles, has appeared frequently on radio and television programs, and has lectured throughout North America, as well as in London and at Loch Ness.
Coleman has written seventeen books and more than three hundred articles, has appeared frequently on radio and television programs, and has lectured throughout North America, as well as in London and at Loch Ness.
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February 15, 2017
Rediscovering my love of the formative paranormal/Fortean books of my youth in the 1970s, I'm especially rediscovering how much I like Loren Coleman's work. Coleman is an interesting figure in the field - with a background in zoology/biology and an interest in Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti he's similar to Ivan T. Sanderson in that he has a rationalist/scientific underpinning to much of his interest in cryptozoology - but then he's also very informed by Charles Fort & the freewheeling "High-Weirdness" 1970s focus on a vast smorgasbord of unexplained phenomena that makes one question the nature of reality.
This book - of which I got a signed copy directly from Mr. Coleman at a long-ago Fortfest - sat on my shelf unread for years and is directly seated in the former styles of the author presented above - sober, well-researched and annotated. It is a very interesting item - a historical record (in the sense of attempting to gather together as much disparate information into one place as possible) of actual events that occurred in the real world and were extensively reported on by worldwide news services: the late 1950s attempts to send zoological expeditions to capture or kill a Yeti. Such events may occupy a place in my collective generation's memory (thanks to trashy magazine, Sun Film Classics matinees and the IN SEARCH OF tv series) but I've never stopped to reflect, as an adult, on the fact that actual people really went and did these things, which makes this book doubly interesting to examine now.
In truth, this book is a little padded (it has 3 appendixes on related topics and goes fairly far back to set up Swift's family wealth, with a detour into an anecdote about Machine Gun Kelly, no less!) because there's only so much information out there, and the story has an unsatisfying ending. But still, it's important that somebody thought to gather the details in one place.
The prime mover in the Yeti Expeditions of 1957-1959 is Tom Swift - heir to an oil fortune, he's essentially like some real-world character mash-up of Howard Hughes, Frank Buck, Indiana Jones and Doc Savage. Here's a guy with lots of money, fascinated with scientific advancements (he created and endowed a number of scientific research labs throughout the US in the 1940s as he was prescient enough to realize how important technology and science were going to become in the latter half of the 20th Century) who's also fascinated with exploration/big-game hunting and has a penchant for cryptozoology. As well, Swift invented new construction methods, owned huge heads of cattle, bred the first cross of an an Angus and Brahma steer lines (the "Brangus") for cold weather raising, collected art, founded an airline, created a Mind-Science Foundation to investigate swami/yogic control over the body, and was instrumental in bringing the Lhasa Apso dog breed to the United States.
Coleman does a great job explaining how the existence of a Yeti (not necessarily the hulking snow Sasquatch of popular culture, the details coming from the Himalayas for decades implied a number of possible animal types, including a smaller, monkey type man-sized animal, perhaps Chimpanzee-like, living not on the lonely mountaintops and desolate ice fields but in the warmer, sub-tropical, bamboo-filled valleys) seemed tantalizingly possible at the time (It may be hard to realize now, but, for example, the long-reported Giant Panda had only recently been captured) and thus expeditions like this were a next logical step. But they required such large funding that only a wealthy hobbyist might be able to undertake them.
And so we get highly detailed information on the expeditions, including evidence and stories gathered, surveillance, plans for capturing and possibly killing the target (Swift's opinion on this approach changed with the times) and problems with the local governments. Which, of course, all came to naught - less so for lack of preparation and more so because of a World Book Encyclopedia & Sir Edmund Hillary publicity stunt/"Expedition" that decided *for* the public that Yetis didn't exist, were not worth anyone's consideration, and were just misidentified bears (despite the fact that the Nepalese had for hundreds of years specifically thought of them/named them as separate from bears).
There's all kinds of interesting details here - the etymological origins of the term "Yeti" (which passingly mentions the term mi-go, possibly familiar to Lovecraft fans), Swift's further expeditions into the Pacific Northwest (hunting not only Sasquatch but also giant salamander as well, in a conflicted and troubled trip) as well as earlier looks at Nessie and gestures towards other cryptozoological interests (all cut short by ), examinations & possible provenance of the various Yeti "scalps" and "hands" held by Tibetan monks (including a fascinating story in which movie star Jimmy Stewart - a friend of the family - helps smuggle some supposed Yeti finger bones out of Tibet!), the (somewhat) mysterious death of wealthy F. Kirk Johnson, etc. Interestingly, as my late sister (who read the book when we got it) pointed out to me - given the time period, Tibet's geographic location to Red China, and Slick's Texas oil family background, one has to wonder if Tom Slick wasn't also doing a little business for the CIA while in the Himalayas...
A fascinating little book. Mark Chorvinsky's appendix tracing representations of the Yeti in film was also an interesting little read.
This book - of which I got a signed copy directly from Mr. Coleman at a long-ago Fortfest - sat on my shelf unread for years and is directly seated in the former styles of the author presented above - sober, well-researched and annotated. It is a very interesting item - a historical record (in the sense of attempting to gather together as much disparate information into one place as possible) of actual events that occurred in the real world and were extensively reported on by worldwide news services: the late 1950s attempts to send zoological expeditions to capture or kill a Yeti. Such events may occupy a place in my collective generation's memory (thanks to trashy magazine, Sun Film Classics matinees and the IN SEARCH OF tv series) but I've never stopped to reflect, as an adult, on the fact that actual people really went and did these things, which makes this book doubly interesting to examine now.
In truth, this book is a little padded (it has 3 appendixes on related topics and goes fairly far back to set up Swift's family wealth, with a detour into an anecdote about Machine Gun Kelly, no less!) because there's only so much information out there, and the story has an unsatisfying ending. But still, it's important that somebody thought to gather the details in one place.
The prime mover in the Yeti Expeditions of 1957-1959 is Tom Swift - heir to an oil fortune, he's essentially like some real-world character mash-up of Howard Hughes, Frank Buck, Indiana Jones and Doc Savage. Here's a guy with lots of money, fascinated with scientific advancements (he created and endowed a number of scientific research labs throughout the US in the 1940s as he was prescient enough to realize how important technology and science were going to become in the latter half of the 20th Century) who's also fascinated with exploration/big-game hunting and has a penchant for cryptozoology. As well, Swift invented new construction methods, owned huge heads of cattle, bred the first cross of an an Angus and Brahma steer lines (the "Brangus") for cold weather raising, collected art, founded an airline, created a Mind-Science Foundation to investigate swami/yogic control over the body, and was instrumental in bringing the Lhasa Apso dog breed to the United States.
Coleman does a great job explaining how the existence of a Yeti (not necessarily the hulking snow Sasquatch of popular culture, the details coming from the Himalayas for decades implied a number of possible animal types, including a smaller, monkey type man-sized animal, perhaps Chimpanzee-like, living not on the lonely mountaintops and desolate ice fields but in the warmer, sub-tropical, bamboo-filled valleys) seemed tantalizingly possible at the time (It may be hard to realize now, but, for example, the long-reported Giant Panda had only recently been captured) and thus expeditions like this were a next logical step. But they required such large funding that only a wealthy hobbyist might be able to undertake them.
And so we get highly detailed information on the expeditions, including evidence and stories gathered, surveillance, plans for capturing and possibly killing the target (Swift's opinion on this approach changed with the times) and problems with the local governments. Which, of course, all came to naught - less so for lack of preparation and more so because of a World Book Encyclopedia & Sir Edmund Hillary publicity stunt/"Expedition" that decided *for* the public that Yetis didn't exist, were not worth anyone's consideration, and were just misidentified bears (despite the fact that the Nepalese had for hundreds of years specifically thought of them/named them as separate from bears).
There's all kinds of interesting details here - the etymological origins of the term "Yeti" (which passingly mentions the term mi-go, possibly familiar to Lovecraft fans), Swift's further expeditions into the Pacific Northwest (hunting not only Sasquatch but also giant salamander as well, in a conflicted and troubled trip) as well as earlier looks at Nessie and gestures towards other cryptozoological interests (all cut short by ), examinations & possible provenance of the various Yeti "scalps" and "hands" held by Tibetan monks (including a fascinating story in which movie star Jimmy Stewart - a friend of the family - helps smuggle some supposed Yeti finger bones out of Tibet!), the (somewhat) mysterious death of wealthy F. Kirk Johnson, etc. Interestingly, as my late sister (who read the book when we got it) pointed out to me - given the time period, Tibet's geographic location to Red China, and Slick's Texas oil family background, one has to wonder if Tom Slick wasn't also doing a little business for the CIA while in the Himalayas...
A fascinating little book. Mark Chorvinsky's appendix tracing representations of the Yeti in film was also an interesting little read.
December 1, 2019
Κριτική στα Ελληνικά πιο κάτω...
2½/5
Before ridiculing subjects considered as pseudoscience, we should never forget that among tons of charlatans attracted by subjects such as lost civilizations, mythical continents, lost cities, unknown animals and so forth, there is a small percentage of amateurs or scientists or simply visionaries who "discovered" America, Troy, Machu Picchu, Giant Panda and so on... I am very very sceptical with most stuff concerning cryptozoology, but let's give the benefit of the doubt to some people or judge them in context of their era and circumstances...
All that said, I really wanted to like this book more, but it was average at best. It feels quite fragmental and roams in many different directions without delving a lot on a main subject, while giving a detailed account on stuff that to me seems irrelevant.
For example, the author tries to paint a portrait of Tom Slick, but starts its book giving a very detailed account of his family, going back generations. It would be fine if he didn't include so many details about the buisiness activities of these people. Maybe these details apply more to an American audience I guess, but on my way of thinking, saying so and so was an ambitious and innovating person, making a fortune moving from railway to oilfields would suffice. Knowing that so and so's grandfather made drills in X area and then bought rights or had shares of Y company and founded Z corporation makes for a pretty boring start of the book in my opinion. The habit of people giving their children exactly their own identical name(s) made the reading even more tiring and confusing to be honest, although that's not Loren Coleman's fault I guess...
When the author finally manages to move on Tom Slick hisself, he tried to categorize his activities by making some very tendious list-like chapters. And what's worse, the information about the Yeti search on the Himalayas is scarce and rather dry. Again lots of detail is consumed on how an expedition was named, rather than for example on discription on the daily routine of people on the search parties on the spot. There is so and so letter addressed to so and so, so and so went there and did that... Lot's of telling without really telling much, rather than showing.
The book then moves to other expenditions sponsored or possibly sponsored by Tom Slick on other parts of the world and on his death and how (and why according to the author) they fell appart pretty soon. In the meantime there is info about other expeditions to ridicule or support the Yeti, BigFoot, Giant Salamanders and other such creatures' hypothesis, while at the end there is a chapter written by Mark Chorvinsky on the yeti-themed films and such.
The whole book gives a very outdated feeling. I'm surprised to see it was written on 1989, still some of Loren Coleman's arguments and writting style seem like they come from decades earlier. Lots of very stretched and far-fetched technics to approach the issue at hand and nothing mentioned really on any development from the early 1960s till the time of publishing the book.
Last but not least, I don't know if the author did this having on mind that the book mighi be used as a reference to other cryptozoologists or if it's due to copyright/legal rules in US so as to avoid in advance troubles with individuals or the law, but so many references made the format of the book even more tiring - Not exact quote here, but an example of what I mean: " Peter Byrne mentioned that he found two tracks on the second day (Byrne, 1975)."-
All in all, there are interesting tid bits here and there on this book and it had potential to be much more interesting, but it's so dry and fragmental and all over the place, that I don't think I enjoyed it much and I wouldn't easily recommend it. Maybe more appropriate for the really hard-core readers/ believers of the Yeti existance...
Στον 19ο και στις αρχές 20ου αιώνα, έχουμε αρκετές ενδιαφέρουσες επιστημονικές ανακαλύψεις, όχι μόνο τεχνολογικές, αλλά ιδιαίτερα και στις ανθρωπιστικές επιστήμες και την αρχαιολογία. Η φαντασία του κοινού εξάπτεται και αρκετές φορές οι εύποροι άνθρωποι αφιερώνουν την ζωή τους στην μελέτη προγενέστερων αρχείων και ευρημάτων. Συχνά ερασιτέχνες ανθρωπολόγοι και ερασιτέχνες αρχαιολόγοι ταξιδεύουν σε περισσότερο ή λιγότερο απομονωμένες γωνιές του πλανήτη, μελετούν άγνωστες φυλές και ανακαλύπτουν εντυπωσιακά μνημεία ή προχωράνε αρκετά την επιστημονική έρευνα στην εθνογραφία, την γεωγραφία, την ζωολογία, την αρχαιολογία και παρόμοιους τομείς, ακόμα κι όταν τα συμπεράσματα τους δεν είναι πάντοτε σωστά ή σήμερα θεωρούνται ξεπερασμένα. Τα απόνερα αυτής της τάσης, μάλλον σε μικρότερο βαθμό, ήταν αισθητά μέχρι τα μισά του 20ου αιώνα και ίσως ακόμα και σήμερα,
Όλη αυτή η εισαγωγή έχει να κάνει με το γεγονός ότι ορισμένοι φαντασιόπληκτοι κατ΄άλλους και οραματιστές για κάποιους άλλους, δημιούργησαν φανατικό κοινό και πολύ θόρυβο στην εποχή τους, όμως είναι εύκολο να τους κατακρίνουμε σήμερα για πλάνη και ξεπερασμένες αντιλήψεις. Οι περισσότεροι ξεχάστηκαν, κάποιοι πέρασαν στην ιστορία ως γραφικοί, ωστόσο... δεν πρέπει να ξεχνάμε πως ορισμένοι από αυτούς έφεραν στο φως μια Τροία κι ένα Μάτσου Πίτσου. Για αυτό το λόγο εγώ κατά καιρούς αρέσκομαι να διαβάζω τα έργα κάποιων, τα οποία μάλλον κατατάσσονται στην ψευδοεπιστήμη, ακόμα κι αν διαφωνώ κάθετα ή γνωρίζω ότι πλέον όλες οι θεωρίες που υποστηρίζουν έχουν καταρριφθεί.
Αν και έχω διαβάσει αρκετά ευχάριστα αναγνώσματα σε αυτό το κλίμα, δυστυχώς το συγκεκριμένο δεν με κέρδισε. Στερείται ταυτότητας και έχει πολλές ατέλειες. Ο συγγραφέας πολλές φορές είτε επιλέγει να αγνοεί κάποια εμφανή κενά και αντιφάσεις στις θεωρίες του ίδιου και των"ομολόγών" του κρυπτοζωολόγων, είτε λόγω έλλειψης υλικού φλυαρεί ακατάπαυστα πάνω σε δευτερεύοντα θέματα, αλλά αφιερώνει λιγοστό χρόνο και ουσία στα πρωτεύοντα. Τα επιχειρήματα και ο τρόπος γραφής είναι ξεπερασμένα ήδη το 1989 που εκδόθηκε το βιβλίο. Η αφήγηση μοιάζει συχνά αποσπασματική και χωρίς ιδιαίτερο ειρμό και προσανατολισμό. Είναι τελικά βιογραφία του Tom Slick, είναι ανασκόπηση της ιστορίας του Γέτι, είναι ανθολογία για φημολογούμενα πλάσματα από τις Γιγάντιες Σαλαμάνδρες μέχρι τον BigFoot; Τι ακριβώς είναι και τι θέλει να πει ο ποιητής;
Έχει τις ενδιαφέρουσες στιγμές του, αλλά οι πολλές του ατέλειες δεν με άφησαν να το απολαύσω όσο θα ήθελα και μάλλον δεν θα το συνιστούσα εύκολα σε άλλους αναγνώστες...
2½/5
2½/5
Before ridiculing subjects considered as pseudoscience, we should never forget that among tons of charlatans attracted by subjects such as lost civilizations, mythical continents, lost cities, unknown animals and so forth, there is a small percentage of amateurs or scientists or simply visionaries who "discovered" America, Troy, Machu Picchu, Giant Panda and so on... I am very very sceptical with most stuff concerning cryptozoology, but let's give the benefit of the doubt to some people or judge them in context of their era and circumstances...
All that said, I really wanted to like this book more, but it was average at best. It feels quite fragmental and roams in many different directions without delving a lot on a main subject, while giving a detailed account on stuff that to me seems irrelevant.
For example, the author tries to paint a portrait of Tom Slick, but starts its book giving a very detailed account of his family, going back generations. It would be fine if he didn't include so many details about the buisiness activities of these people. Maybe these details apply more to an American audience I guess, but on my way of thinking, saying so and so was an ambitious and innovating person, making a fortune moving from railway to oilfields would suffice. Knowing that so and so's grandfather made drills in X area and then bought rights or had shares of Y company and founded Z corporation makes for a pretty boring start of the book in my opinion. The habit of people giving their children exactly their own identical name(s) made the reading even more tiring and confusing to be honest, although that's not Loren Coleman's fault I guess...
When the author finally manages to move on Tom Slick hisself, he tried to categorize his activities by making some very tendious list-like chapters. And what's worse, the information about the Yeti search on the Himalayas is scarce and rather dry. Again lots of detail is consumed on how an expedition was named, rather than for example on discription on the daily routine of people on the search parties on the spot. There is so and so letter addressed to so and so, so and so went there and did that... Lot's of telling without really telling much, rather than showing.
The book then moves to other expenditions sponsored or possibly sponsored by Tom Slick on other parts of the world and on his death and how (and why according to the author) they fell appart pretty soon. In the meantime there is info about other expeditions to ridicule or support the Yeti, BigFoot, Giant Salamanders and other such creatures' hypothesis, while at the end there is a chapter written by Mark Chorvinsky on the yeti-themed films and such.
The whole book gives a very outdated feeling. I'm surprised to see it was written on 1989, still some of Loren Coleman's arguments and writting style seem like they come from decades earlier. Lots of very stretched and far-fetched technics to approach the issue at hand and nothing mentioned really on any development from the early 1960s till the time of publishing the book.
Last but not least, I don't know if the author did this having on mind that the book mighi be used as a reference to other cryptozoologists or if it's due to copyright/legal rules in US so as to avoid in advance troubles with individuals or the law, but so many references made the format of the book even more tiring - Not exact quote here, but an example of what I mean: " Peter Byrne mentioned that he found two tracks on the second day (Byrne, 1975)."-
All in all, there are interesting tid bits here and there on this book and it had potential to be much more interesting, but it's so dry and fragmental and all over the place, that I don't think I enjoyed it much and I wouldn't easily recommend it. Maybe more appropriate for the really hard-core readers/ believers of the Yeti existance...
Στον 19ο και στις αρχές 20ου αιώνα, έχουμε αρκετές ενδιαφέρουσες επιστημονικές ανακαλύψεις, όχι μόνο τεχνολογικές, αλλά ιδιαίτερα και στις ανθρωπιστικές επιστήμες και την αρχαιολογία. Η φαντασία του κοινού εξάπτεται και αρκετές φορές οι εύποροι άνθρωποι αφιερώνουν την ζωή τους στην μελέτη προγενέστερων αρχείων και ευρημάτων. Συχνά ερασιτέχνες ανθρωπολόγοι και ερασιτέχνες αρχαιολόγοι ταξιδεύουν σε περισσότερο ή λιγότερο απομονωμένες γωνιές του πλανήτη, μελετούν άγνωστες φυλές και ανακαλύπτουν εντυπωσιακά μνημεία ή προχωράνε αρκετά την επιστημονική έρευνα στην εθνογραφία, την γεωγραφία, την ζωολογία, την αρχαιολογία και παρόμοιους τομείς, ακόμα κι όταν τα συμπεράσματα τους δεν είναι πάντοτε σωστά ή σήμερα θεωρούνται ξεπερασμένα. Τα απόνερα αυτής της τάσης, μάλλον σε μικρότερο βαθμό, ήταν αισθητά μέχρι τα μισά του 20ου αιώνα και ίσως ακόμα και σήμερα,
Όλη αυτή η εισαγωγή έχει να κάνει με το γεγονός ότι ορισμένοι φαντασιόπληκτοι κατ΄άλλους και οραματιστές για κάποιους άλλους, δημιούργησαν φανατικό κοινό και πολύ θόρυβο στην εποχή τους, όμως είναι εύκολο να τους κατακρίνουμε σήμερα για πλάνη και ξεπερασμένες αντιλήψεις. Οι περισσότεροι ξεχάστηκαν, κάποιοι πέρασαν στην ιστορία ως γραφικοί, ωστόσο... δεν πρέπει να ξεχνάμε πως ορισμένοι από αυτούς έφεραν στο φως μια Τροία κι ένα Μάτσου Πίτσου. Για αυτό το λόγο εγώ κατά καιρούς αρέσκομαι να διαβάζω τα έργα κάποιων, τα οποία μάλλον κατατάσσονται στην ψευδοεπιστήμη, ακόμα κι αν διαφωνώ κάθετα ή γνωρίζω ότι πλέον όλες οι θεωρίες που υποστηρίζουν έχουν καταρριφθεί.
Αν και έχω διαβάσει αρκετά ευχάριστα αναγνώσματα σε αυτό το κλίμα, δυστυχώς το συγκεκριμένο δεν με κέρδισε. Στερείται ταυτότητας και έχει πολλές ατέλειες. Ο συγγραφέας πολλές φορές είτε επιλέγει να αγνοεί κάποια εμφανή κενά και αντιφάσεις στις θεωρίες του ίδιου και των"ομολόγών" του κρυπτοζωολόγων, είτε λόγω έλλειψης υλικού φλυαρεί ακατάπαυστα πάνω σε δευτερεύοντα θέματα, αλλά αφιερώνει λιγοστό χρόνο και ουσία στα πρωτεύοντα. Τα επιχειρήματα και ο τρόπος γραφής είναι ξεπερασμένα ήδη το 1989 που εκδόθηκε το βιβλίο. Η αφήγηση μοιάζει συχνά αποσπασματική και χωρίς ιδιαίτερο ειρμό και προσανατολισμό. Είναι τελικά βιογραφία του Tom Slick, είναι ανασκόπηση της ιστορίας του Γέτι, είναι ανθολογία για φημολογούμενα πλάσματα από τις Γιγάντιες Σαλαμάνδρες μέχρι τον BigFoot; Τι ακριβώς είναι και τι θέλει να πει ο ποιητής;
Έχει τις ενδιαφέρουσες στιγμές του, αλλά οι πολλές του ατέλειες δεν με άφησαν να το απολαύσω όσο θα ήθελα και μάλλον δεν θα το συνιστούσα εύκολα σε άλλους αναγνώστες...
2½/5
March 29, 2022
Interesting topic...written somewhat poorly. Another reviewer noted how much attention is given to the names of expeditions and another commented on just how much time is used on Tom Slick's family tree. Both of these make this short book something of a slog, especially combined with the oddly flat and often rushed writing style. This book succeeds in making an interesting topic rather dull. I mean, the part with Jimmy Stewart alone should have given it a bit of a spark--it doesn't.
I was hoping for a book that would discuss the search for yeti in a balanced, skeptical matter. Nope.
Tom Slick's motivations and character remain difficult to grasp here. Playing devil's advocate--at this time, several cryptids like the coelancath, okapi and giant panda were amazing new discoveries.
HAD there been any creatures like the yeti, I'd have expected them to be primitive humanoids like a surviving pocket of Neanderthals rather than an actual ape due to the semi-intelligent behavior and the solely upright walk. In this era, there still was the possibility the yeti was out there, but I'm convinced that there isn't any such critter sadly.
I was hoping for a book that would discuss the search for yeti in a balanced, skeptical matter. Nope.
Tom Slick's motivations and character remain difficult to grasp here. Playing devil's advocate--at this time, several cryptids like the coelancath, okapi and giant panda were amazing new discoveries.
HAD there been any creatures like the yeti, I'd have expected them to be primitive humanoids like a surviving pocket of Neanderthals rather than an actual ape due to the semi-intelligent behavior and the solely upright walk. In this era, there still was the possibility the yeti was out there, but I'm convinced that there isn't any such critter sadly.
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September 10, 2013Tom Slick founded Southwest Research Institute, where I currently work. He was a rancher, oil-man, philanthropist, scientist and (wait for it...) a Yeti Hunter. Or as he preferred to call himself a 'cryptozoologist'. Fascinating stuff.
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