The first-ever comprehensive study on an astonishing variety of puzzling apelike and humanlike animals that are still being seen today. This fully illustrated and referenced volume includes range maps and typical footprints for each type of undiscovered creature sighted around the world, as well as actual eyewitness accounts of sighting, newest findings in an exciting branch of cryptozoology, likeliest locales, and most common subtypes for sighting, as well as advice on what to do if a sighting occurs.
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Loren Coleman has conducted fieldwork and bibliographical research on unknown hominids and mystery primates for nearly forty years. Trained in anthropology, zoology, and psychiatric social work, he is a professor at two New England universities and the author of a dozen books, including Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti and Mysterious America.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A revised classification system for unknown primates,
This review is from: Field Guide To Bigfoot, Yeti, & Other Mystery Primates Worldwide (Paperback)
Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe have in the course of 207 pages laid a basis for a reclassification system to the myriad of mystery primates from around the worldwide. Borrowing from the works of Mark Hall and Ivan Sanderson (to name a few) the proposed classification system encompasses nine (9) varieties of these cryptic creatures.Coupled with the classifications, are 50 case studies each accompanied by an line illustration by Harry Trumbore. These case studies are short recounting of famous and not so famous, incidents and anecdotal information about each of these cases. The cases themselves are subgroup in a worldwide geographical breakdown, thus allowing a reader to view only the particular world area if they choose. Although some may question the inclusion of chupacabras or Steller's sea monkey (or ape) in the classification system, they do add some spice to the reading and perhaps offer a few un-thought of ideas. The heart of the book though is not the case studies, rather the rationale for a reclassification to avoid the common term of "Bigfoot" around the world, as these mystery primates have been being reported long before the usage of the word "Bigfoot" in the mid-part of this century. The first portion of the book breaks down the various groups that make up the classification, these being: Neo-Giant, True Giant, Marked Hominid, Neandertaloid, Erectus Hominid, Proto-Pygmy, Unknown Pongid, Giant Monkey, and Merbeings. By far the last class, Merbeings, is the most controversial. Additionally the latter part of the book deals with best bets as to which of these mystery creatures may be discovered first. It must also be said that some of the inclusions are historical and that the creatures described may no longer exist. The extensive bibliography, source pages and other resource and additional follows-up sections at the rear of the book, make it easier for a researcher to dig further for themselves. The book does not answer everything, and there are some gray areas. But, as a medium to create debate and rethinking of ideas the book succeeds. As a book in a series of other Field Guides this one had to follow a certain pattern. More emphasis is needed on breaking down the exact anatomical variations between the classes and a more thorough emphasis on cases that make up those classes. But for limited space and a stricter pattern, the book does offer a reader the basics to start their own research and evaluation. Perhaps even offer the authors themselves a reclassification of their classifications.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
overambitious and weak,
By A Customer
This review is from: Field Guide To Bigfoot, Yeti, & Other Mystery Primates Worldwide (Paperback)
Please don't listen to people who think this book is a "must-have" or an "instant-classic", or another "(the author) has done it again!" book. This book is really rather weak book that should be considered more as entertainment than as a serious work. 1. "Mermen?" "Neo Giants"? Does anyone really think these things exist? And if they do, does anyone really think these things really exist based on a handful of weak reports? 2. The taxonomic classification system, while based in real science, is really a shot in the dark. While one might argue that Grover Krantz's beloved Gigantopithecus Blacki has been classified by science based on a few tooth fragments, well, that's actual physical evidence, and despite the fact that I do believe in a physical aspect to the Bigfoot phenomenon, there is no hard physical evidence. I know it's an attempt, Loren, but still, it's grasping at straws to even suggest these are different species. We could be dealing with a single species and the reported difference in physical appearance could be akin to so-called "racial" differences in humans. 3. The sightings in the reports are really kind of bland and uninteresting. No photographs, no eyewitness drawings, no photographs of locations, nothing. Just one pencil drawing per page. It would have been more interesting to make it look like a field investigator's scrapbook. 4. The sighting reports are too short. In many Bigfoot books, the author/researcher may spend many pages on a single sighting, interviewing eyewitnesses, documenting evidence, revisiting the scene, etc. There's none of this here. Every entry looks the same and is pretty much the same length. 5. I'm really baffled to find myself listed in the Acknowledgements section. I really don't know what I did to assist in the production of this book. I didn't even know the authors were writing it. It's a fair read, don't get me wrong, though I think that anyone who reads it ought to read it with an iceberg-sized grain of salt. Those well versed in Bigfoot should give it a pass, or take it on as a curio, a maker in the careers of Loren Coleman and Patrick Hughye. Coleman in particular has been getting away from theorizing and sticking to dishing reports, so it's all the more frustrating to see him go back to theorizing and producing such, well, quality rubbish. I think it would be a good starter book for children in the way Marian Place's books were, a category that currently remains unfilled. It's contraversial, but then again, most Bigfooters think that professional wrestling is contraversial. It's an odd book, a field guide for a nonexistent field.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Fascinating and Useful Reference Tool for Cryptozoologists,
By A Customer
This review is from: Field Guide To Bigfoot, Yeti, & Other Mystery Primates Worldwide (Paperback)
"The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide" by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe stands alone as a work that attempts to briefly describe each of a variety of distinct animals sighted worldwide. The authors have presented the cases, not as the "be all and end all" of mystery primate reference, but rather, as the title denotes, as a "field guide". The historical accounts are informative, nicely condensed, and feature excellent drawings by Harry Trumbore. It can be argued that the differences in individual sightings leading to the creation of so many distinct "classifications" has the effect of lessening credibility, but the reader is free to make their own judgements. Although some would relegate it to the realm of "mythology", the majority of the sightings are based on solid historical evidence. To include more than one or two specific sightings per entry would have burdened the book with unnecessary bulk and turned it from a "field-guide" into an "encyclopedia". Overall it is another excellent book from a cryptozoologist with nearly 40 years of experience.
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