Regal Searching for Sasquatch

Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11829-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 249 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monster hunting in the late 20th century, but the more important relationship between the professional scientists and amateur naturalists who hunt them—and their place in the history of science.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Regal, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chasing Monsters Crackpots and Eggheads The Snowmen Bigfoot, the Anti-Krantz, and the Iceman The Life of Grover Krantz Suits and Ladders The Problems of Evidence A Life with Monsters

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Regal is Assistant Professor for the History of Science at Kean University, New Jersey, USA. His previous works include Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man, Entering Dubious Realms: Grover Krantz, Science and Sasquatch, and Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia.