In Search of Giants: Bigfoot Sasquatch Encounters

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Summary: A personal account of one man's bigfoot investigation
Review: Steenburg has been investigating sasquatch in northwestern Canada for years, and he's presenting his latest evidence. The meat of his book is interviews with subjects who claim to have seen the big North American primate, typed verbatim minus the 'uh...' and 'um...' He even gives sighting statistics taken from the data he collected.

While it is interesting to get an in depth glance at a cryptozoologist at work, Steenburg (for all his stat making) seems to be missing the real pattern.

Nearly every interview is identical, a pattern that also reveals itself in alien abduction scenarios. The subject witnessed a bigfoot from (usually) over 100 yards, it was walking quickly in one direction, until it saw the witness, then changed to a different direction and disappeared. (Animal behavior, it would seem, should be somewhat less predictable.) Little trace is left behind, neither footprints nor hair. The lack of tracks is explained away by hard, dry, rocky (pick your adjective) ground.

I believe Steenburg is a genuine researcher providing only the facts he has collected. However, a reading of his text begs an explanation for the sighting pattern that occurs again and again. This seems to make the entire book more a comment on Jungian archetypes that prey on our collective subconscious rather than an exploration of unknown simians in the Canadian wilderness.

The book as a whole works for the skeptic, the true believer, or the mildly interested. It's an honest work about honest people who honestly believe they've encountered something. It's the "something" that is left in doubt.

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Summary: In search of Giants
Review: The book is full of facts and iformation. Eric J Mazzi

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Summary: shows you what to do
Review: What Thomas Steenburg does in this book is tells you what he doesn in his filed research, and how he interviews people who have seen a bigfoot. This is a very unique book, not only does he tell you what he think of any one sigthing he looks into, but he even writes the interviews in the book to let you be the judge! one of the better books on the subject. i rate it 5 stars, because it has such a large amount of info in it.