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Overview

The ultimate quest for the world's most mysterious creatures

The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman — these are the names of the elusive beasts that have caught the eye and captured the imaginations of people around the world for centuries. Recently, tales of these "monsters" have been corroborated by an increase in sightings, and out of these legends a new science has been born: cryptozoology — the study of hidden animals.

Cryptozoology A to Z, the first encyclopedia of its kind, contains nearly two hundred entries, including cryptids (the name given to these unusual beasts), new animal finds, and the ...

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Overview

The ultimate quest for the world's most mysterious creatures

Cryptozoology A to Z, the first encyclopedia of its kind, contains nearly two hundred entries, including cryptids (the name given to these unusual beasts), new animal finds, and the explorers and scientists who search for them. Loren Coleman, one of the world's leading cryptozoologists, teams up with Jerome Clark, editor and author of several encyclopedias, to provide these definitive descriptions and many never-before-published drawings and photographs from eyewitnesses' detailed accounts. Full of insights into the methods of these scientists, exciting tales of discovery, and the history and evolution of this field, Cryptozoology A to Z is the most complete reference ever of the newest zoological science.

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ISBN-13: 9780684856025
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 8/5/1999
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 176,469
Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Loren Coleman, M.S.W., has researched the Copycat Effect for more than two decades. Coleman has been an adjunct professor at various universities in New England since 1980 and a senior researcher with the Muskie School for Public Policy. He is currently the primary consultant for the State of Maine's Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative. The author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty books, including the critically acclaimed work Suicide Clusters, lives in Portland, Maine.

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Abominable Snowman

When most people ponder on the "big three" of cryptozoology, they are thinking of the Loch Ness Monsters, Bigfoot, and the Abominable Snowman. Though many assume these beasts to be mythical, a body of intriguing evidence exists for each. Of the three, the Abominable Snowman is the cryptozoological animal longest known and discussed in the West.

The more proper name is Yeti, but most Westerners have been more familiar with the moniker "Abominable Snowman." "Abominable Snowman" is a phrase coined, accidentally, by a Calcutta Statesman newspaper columnist, Henry Newman, in 1921.

It happened when Newman wrote about the 1921 sighting by Lieutenant Colonel (later Sir) C.K. Howard-Bury and his party, who saw dark forms moving about on a twenty-thousand-foot-high snowfield above their location, the Lhapka-La pass on the Tibetan side of the Himalayan mountains, and viewed them through binoculars. This is the first credible Western sighting of what until then had been mostly a shadowy tale (at least to Westerners) of strange, hairy upright creatures in Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Mustang, and Nepal. Howard-Bury would later, on September 22, 1921, find footprints "three times those of normal humans" at the site where the dark forms were moving about.

The Sherpas insisted that the prints were those of the metoh-kangmi, as Howard-Bury rendered it. Kang-mi loosely means "snow creature." The metoh part should have been written as met-teh, which translates as "man-sized wild creature."

Newman's mistake was caused in part by Howard-Bury's mistransliteration of the Sherpa word. Howard-Bury did not understand that the Sherpas recognized several types of creatures; on this occasion they had used a generic, not a specific, term. The error was compounded when Newman changed Howard-Bury's metoh-kangmi to metch kangmi, which he explained as a Tibetan word meaning "Abominable Snowman."

In any case, this proved to be a pivotal event in cryptozoological history. As Ivan T. Sanderson wrote, "The result was like the explosion of an atomic bomb." The melodramatic name "Abominable Snowman" spurred gigantic press interest. Newspaper coverage multiplied as more and more expeditions sought to climb Mount Everest.

The true origin of the phrase "Abominable Snowman" has been misrepresented over the years. For example, on a 1992 episode of the television series Unsolved Mysteries, a well-known Irish explorer wrongly claimed that the creature got its name because of its horrible odor.

The real animal behind the name is neither abominable nor a true creature of the snows. These beasts usually appear to live in quiet retreat in the steamy mountain valleys of the Himalayas, using the snowy passes as a way to move from one spot to another, leaving behind huge mysterious footprints. They are not — contrary to another widespread misunderstanding — white. And they are not a single creature.

A better generic term for Abominable Snowman is the Sherpa yeti, loosely meaning "that there thing." Yetis are known as huge creatures — humanoid beasts, covered with thick coats of dark fur with arms, like those of anthropoid apes, which reach down to their knees.

A description of the reportedly three types of Yeti is discussed, in depth, within that entry.

Zuiyo-maru Monster

In April 1977, thirty miles off the coast of Christchurch, New Zealand, the trawler's nets of a Japanese fishing boat, the Zuiyo-maru, snared a huge animal carcass of an unknown origin. The crew hauled the monstrous body out of the ocean onto the deck, and Michihiko Yano, the ship's assistant production manager, measured the creature and took some now-famous photographs. The creature was thirty-three feet long and weighed about four thousand pounds. It had a snakelike head at the end of a long, slender neck, giving it an unwhale-like appearance. Some of the crew thought it was a rotten whale, but others were not so sure. After great difficulty, the stinking Zuiyo-maru Monster was thrown overboard.

Media attention in Japan focused on the plesiosaur-like appearance of the creature. Interest in Sea Serpents rose. Toys were produced of the Zuiyo-maru Monster.

But Yano had taken samples of the "horny fiber" from one of the monster's fins. Tests determined the Zuiyo-maru Monster was a decomposed basking shark, although few today know that part of the story.

CONTENTS

Cryptozoology Timeline

Introduction

Entries:

Abominable Snowman

Agogwe

Ahool

Almas

Barloy, Jean-Jacques

Barmanu

Batutut

Bayanov, Dmitri

Beast of Bodmin Moor

Beast of 'Busco

Beast of Gevaudan

Bergman's Bear

Bessie

Big Bird

Bigfoot

Bille, Matthew A.

Black Panthers

Blue Tiger

Bondegezou

British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club

Brosnie

Bunyip

Buru

Caddy

Cassie

Chacoan Peccary

Chambers Affair

Champ

Chuchunaa

Chupacabras

Clark, Eugenie

Clark, James Alexander

Clark, Ramona

Coelacanth

Coleman, Loren

Congo Peacock

Con Rit

Corrales, Scott

Crook, Cliff

Crowe, Ray

Cryptid

Dahinden, René

Dao Van Tien

Dinsdale, Tim

Dobhar-chu

Ellis, Richard

Emela-Ntouka

Ernst, William "Ted"

Flathead Lake Monster

Gaal, Arlene

Giant Anaconda

Giant Forest Hog

Giant Monkey

Giant Octopus

Giant Panda

Giant Salamander

Giant Sloth

Giant Turtles

Gibbons, William

Globsters

Goblin Universe

Green, John

Greenwell, J. Richard

Grimm, Jack

Hall, Dennis Jay

Hall, Mark A.

Harkness, Ruth

Heuvelmans, Bernard

Hominology

Honey Island Swamp Monster

Horned Serpents

Huyghe, Patrick

Igopogo

Iliamna Lake Monster

Indonesian Coelacanths

International Society of Cryptozoology

Jersey Devil

Keating, Donald

King Cheetah

Kirk, John

Koffmann, Marie-Jeanne

Komodo Dragon

Kongamato

Kouprey

Kraken

Krantz, Grover S.

Krumbiegel, Ingo

Lake Monsters

Lawndale Incident

LeBlond, Paul H.

Ley, Willy

Lindorm

Living Fossils

Loch Ness Monsters

Loofs-Wissowa, Helmut

"Lost World" of Vietnam

Lusca

MacFarlane's Bear

Mackal, Roy P.

MacKinnon, John

Mangiacopra, Gary

Manipogo

Mapinguary

Marked Hominid

Marozi

McLeod, James

Megalodon

Megamouth

Meldrum, D. Jeffrey

Merbeing

Minhocao

Minnesota Iceman

Mngwa

Moas

Mokele-mbembe

Momo

Morag

Morgan, Robert W.

Mountain Gorilla

Mountain Nyala

Nahuelito

Nandi Bear

Napes

Neandertals

Nellie

Nguoi Rung

Nittaewo

Norman, Scott T.

Ogopogo

Okapi

Old Yellow Top

Olgoi-Khorkhoi

Onza

Orang Pendek

Oudemans, Antoon Cornelis

Paddler

Pangboche Hand

Panthera atrox

Patterson Film

Perez, Daniel

Piasa

Porshnev, Boris F.

Proto-Pygmy

Pygmy Elephant

Pygmy Hippopotamus

Queensland Tiger

Raynal, Michel

Rebsamen, William M.

Roesch, Ben S.

Russell, W.M. "Gerald"

Saber-toothed Cats

Sanderson, Ivan T.

Saola

Sasquatch

Schaffner, Ron

Sea Serpents

Short, Bobbie

Shuker, Karl P.N.

Shunka Warak'in

Sisemite

Skunk Ape

Slick, Thomas Baker

Storsjoodjuret

Taylor, Dan Scott

Tatzelwurm

Tchernine, Odette

Teh-lma

Telebiology

Tessie

Thomas, Lars

Thunderbird

Thylacine

Titmus, Robert

Tran Hong Viet

True Giant

Ucu

Ufiti

Vietnam Cryptozoic and Rare Animals Research Center

Waitoreke

Walsh, Dave

Wasson, Barbara

Winnipogo

Wood, Forrest G.

Woodland Bison

Wright, Bruce S.

Xing-xing

Yameneko

Yeren

Yeti

Yowie

Zeuglodon

Zuiyo-maru Monster

Appendix

Cryptozoology Museums and Exhibitions

Cryptozoology Periodicals

Cryptozoology Websites

On the Matter of Style

Texts Cited/Further Reading

Acknowledgments

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An Interesting Summary, Needs New Edition

Another reviewer complained about the biographies in this volume. If you are dealing with a speculative, controversial subject like cryptozoology, it helps to know about its participants. That said, this work is already dated. It would be good to have a new revised edition updating what has occurred in the last decade. I think the authors could have downplayed some of the wackier entries like thunderbirds and giant apes (how could we overlook 15 foot flying birds and 10+ foot hairy monsters?) and in favor of more coverage on plausible cryptids. The book also seemed to give more coverage to ape-like creatures and to neglect other mammals and birds. However, this is the cheapest book of its kind on B&N and could have been a blatant rip-off instead of a pretty good introduction to unknown animals. If you like the offbeat, this should be quite enjoyable.
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Too many entries on people in the field, not enough on the creatures.

I bought this book because of a passing interest in the subject. The entries on the creatures explored are set up alphabetically and are mostly informative, if somewhat brief. What ruined the books value to me was the entries on the people involved in this field of study. There are just too many of these entries and they are usually longer and more detailed than those on the beasts the title leads one to believe are examined. I'd say that 3/5 of the book is devoted to people. It should be titled 'CryptoZoologists A-Z'.
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Too many entries on people in the field, not enough on the creatures.