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Abominable Snowmen, Legend Come to Life
by Ivan T. Sanderson
[1961]
One day this fall, my sisterinlaw visited me. We were exploring the Santa Cruz mountains when we stumbled
on the
, a little tworoom tourist attraction in downtown Boulder Creek. We were being regaled
by the proprietor with his tales of encounters with Bigfoot. I noticed this book on his shelf and asked him about
it. "Oh, that's the Bigfoot 'Bible,'" he said, "Sanderson started it all." The Bigfoot Bible! I knew at that moment
that I had to add it to this site.
Sanderson, (b. January 30, 1911, d. Feb. 19, 1973) was a naturalist and science writer. He wrote a number of
lively books about his adventures searching for rare and 'exotic' species in Africa and the Caribbean. Born in
Scotland, Sanderson later became a US citizen. He was schooled at Eton and Cambridge, with degrees in
zoology, botany and geology, so he was hardly an outsider to the field. He admired the works of
and coined the word cryptozoology in the early 1940s to describe the study of unknown animals. Sanderson
could be skeptical, though, as befits a Fortean. His speculations on unknown primates were informed by critical
thinking and his years of observation of animals in the wild.
This book was originally published in hardback in 1961 by Chilton, (better known for their automobile technical
manuals). The Chilton edition has xv+505 pages, and lacks an index.
Abominable Snowmen
was reprinted in
heavily abridged form in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1968, as 'Abominable Snowmen, Legend Come to
Life,' and the subtitle 'An Account of Reports on the Existence of UltraPrimitive Hominids on Five Contients,' in
all 365 pages, including an index. This etext was based on the extended Chilton version, for copyright reasons.
PRODUCTION NOTES: Most of the map captions in this book were placed on the facing page, but I have moved them
underneath the maps they describe. The plates, which originally appeared between page 78 and 79, have been moved after the
Contents page.J. B. Hare, November 17, 2008.
Appendices
p. i
Abominable Snowmen:
LEGEND COME TO LIFE
p. ii
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Abominable Snowmen:
LEGEND COME TO LIFE
The Story of SubHumans
on Five Continents
from the Early Ice Age
Until Today
IVAN T. SANDERSON
F.L.S., F.R.G.S., F.Z.S.
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