Giant Humanlike Beasts (Unsolved Mysteries (Raintree Hardcover)) [Library Binding]

Brian Innes (Author)

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Grade 4-7-Standard tales of ancient and 20th-century encounters are paired with stock photos of evidence. The Himalayan yeti and North American Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, are most commonly discussed in similar books; featured sections of reports on the "Wildman" of China and the "Almas" of Asia are unique to Beasts. While eyewitness accounts and footprint evidence of these creatures are much like those of the yeti and Bigfoot, the description of a female Almas, named Zana, who purportedly lived among humans in the 19th century, is particularly fascinating. The usual explanations for reports of large, hairy humans are presented. This is a good, simple overview of an endlessly controversial topic. Millennium Prophecies draws on Edgar Cayce, hidden Bible codes, Nostradamus, astrologers, and the Great Pyramid at Giza, plus two Irish prophets and the Book of Revelations. It opens with an explanation of the different major types of calendars and dating systems that do not coincide with the Christian calendar's millennium. Unlike Daniel Cohen's Prophets of Doom (Millbrook, 1999), this title just presents the prophecies and leaves readers to judge whether or not they will come true. Cohen's tone is more reassuring. A clear glossary, effective index, and small list for further reading complete this tidily packaged view of the possible near future.
Ann G. Brouse, Big Flats Branch Library, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Library Binding: 48 pages
• Publisher: Raintree (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817254846
• ISBN-13: 978-0817254841
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,950,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Introduction to a complex subject, April 13, 1999

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This review is from: Giant Humanlike Beasts (Unsolved Mysteries) (Paperback)

This is a good introductory book for children with a beginning interest in learning more about the Himalayan Abominable Snowmen (Yeti), Chinese Wildmen (Yeren), Asian Almas, North American Bigfoot (Sasquatch), and Brian Innes's apparent theory that they all (!) may be Neandertals. The gaps are minor - a couple of allegedly hoaxed photographs are included (an Ivan Marx "Bigfoot" on a rock ledge and the de Loys's "ape"). But those pictures don't distract from this being a short (42 pages of text with 33 images) volume that hits the goal of overviewing a complex subject nicely. School libraries should buy this book to support the curious minds of budding biologists, anthropologists, and cryptozoologists. For the young readers that start here, they will want to move on to The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide (Avon 1999; 224 pp) next to learn another view - that all of these "giant humanlike beasts" are not just the same thing, not a single species, and some may indeed be Gigantopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo erestus, as well.