In his intro, Bob Eckstein says, "I am well-versed in the pastimes and recreational habits of centuries past, as well as enjoy an unhealthy obsession for the snow, the Artic, and history minutiae (e.g., as a boy I inexplicably studied things like the Christmas party aboard the Hansa, a ship that explored the Artic in 1870)." He also writes he's married to an obsessive collector who "accumulates anything and everything" and that he had his wife spend a lot of time going from auctions, yard sales and flea markets to "feed their addiction for collecting things."
Right away you realize the author's a pretty quirky guy and this is a pretty quirky book. While the History of the Snowman doesn't hold together as well as it should as a narrative story, the various chapters can be seen as almost separate essays (some are quite humorous), so you can dive in and out of the book and come back to different parts whenever you want.
Eckstein, who's an illustrator, has clearly taken great care in assembling a very impressive collection photos, drawings, cartoons, and old ads that all relate to--you guessed it--the snowman. In that sense, it's a small-format coffee-table book and I think some people will choose to peruse it rather read ever word. Either way, it's a book that puts a smile on your face and makes you thankful for man's unhealthy obsessions.
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