Meet the Sasquatch

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Summary: Full and fresh with photos and more
Review: Ahhh, here is a book the bigfoot community has been waiting for. Christopher Murphy (along with John Green and Thomas Steenburg) have given us a great book for research, discussion, and tributes. I eagerly awaited this book since its announcement and was compelled to buy it just for having Green's and Steenburg's involvement. I'm so glad I did. While the book is thin, it covers quite a variety of data and many exceptional photos. I've got nearly every book on this subject, collected newspaper and magazine articles, television programs, and absorb whatever info I can get. This publication has added fresh new info and I'm delighted with it.

Back in 1996, I wrote an 18 page thesis for college (Montana State University) anthropology class on the matter of bigfoot and received an 'A'. At the time I was grateful for Dr. Krantz's 'Big Footprints' which helped immensely. I wish I had Murphy's 'Meet the Sasquatch' also. This book could easily be used as a text book for a study in an anthropology class and I would recommend it for such. Granted you won't spend a semester studying bigfoot, but a special week of classes would be benefited by this book. This is not a book about sightings, this is a book about data, facts, evidence, contributions, and theories.

Is this text the best book on bigfoot/sasquatch?... no, but it is among the best research friendly works published in the last 15 years. Truly worth every penny of the price.

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Summary: If this subject interests you... BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: Chris Murphy, with the help of John Green and Thomas Steenburg, as well as many others, may have produced the best Sasquatch/Bigfoot book since Green's "Sasquatch: the Apes Among Us" in 1978.

This book is deceptively thin, but holds within over 640 pictures, some of which have never been published before.

The perfect book to lend to those who do not know of the amount of evidence there is concerning these mysterious creatures.

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Summary: Written for believers and skeptics alike
Review: In Meet The Sasquatch, Chris Murphy (with the assistance of John Gren and Thomas Steenburg) presents an amazing compendium of research on the fabled sasquatch. Written by the team who produced the work to accompany an exhibit at the Vancouver Museum in the summer of 2004, Meet The Sasquatch is an amazing, intriniscally interesting, in-depth, informed and informative compendium presenting the all that is known or suspected about the Sasquatch with detailed information and full-color photography, written for believers and skeptics alike. Definitive and up-to-date, Meet The Sasquatch is highly recommended reading!



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Summary: A reference source
Review: Simply put, this book has it all. 99.99% of what anyone would want to know about Bigfoot is in this coffee table sized volume.

Chris has done us all a service and put it between these covers. I cannot over-praise the work he has done and that of all the people contained within it. There are no mental gymnastics one must go through to understand the evidence collected so far by amateur researchers. It is heavily illustrated with many never before published pictures and drawings. It begs the reader to really think about it, visulize it and not just scoff and proclaim "no way, those things can't exist".

What is it with those Canadians anyway? How can they consistently produce the best material out there on the subject? This sets the bar quite a bit higher than other work's claiming so called "critical thinking" or to be "skeptically inquiring" by being downright "serious". It will be at least another 10 years before anything like it can be made with original material.

I also predict that many of you will use this book to collect the autographs of the people Chris wrote about.

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Summary: Excellent, excellent book!
Review: This book is so well-written and well-thought-out in so many ways, and a truly enjoyable read. The photos (over 600 of them!) are breathtaking and truly enhance the book very well. Murphy couldn't have done better than to have John Green and Thomas Steenburg as associates for the book. They really add a great flavor to the book, and are well-versed in all things Sasquatch. I cannot praise this book enough. Highly-recommended!

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Summary: Well written but one sided -- for believers only
Review: This is not an objective analysis of the sasquatch. Far from it. Murphy assumes that the creature exists, and this book promotes that view. Its tone is light overall, and it does contain lots of interesting pictures. For example, I was pleased to see other stills from the famous Patterson film, rather than just Frame 352 over and over.

I have a few complaints: Number one, Murphy must know that the "Jacko" story was an old newspaper hoax. Yet here it is, presented with a straight face again. That old chestnut was denbunked years ago. Also, when will someone in the pro-bigfoot community just come right out and admit that Albert Ostman's story of being kidnapped by sasquatches is absurd? Murphy goes right up to the line but cannot bring himself to state the obvious. The clear psycho-sexual overtones of the Ostman story make it highly suspect. To see bigfoot researchers cling to it after all of these years is sad and makes it hard for one to take bigfoot research seriously. Likewise, I find wild-and-wooly unsubstantiated tales out of czarist Russia wholly unpersuasive. Murphy seems to take seriously claims that a female sasquatch was captured in Russia and impregnated by men. A photo of one of the spawns of this union is provided. The man looks to be African American, perhaps even Aboriginal. It's an interesting question how such an individual ended up in 19th century Russia, but I doubt the sasquatch had anything to do with it.

Murphy writes very well, and as I said the book contains lots of cool photographs. It's worth a look, but keep an open mind if you are undecided on the subject and definitely do not believe everything you read in this book. You may want to provide some balance with a more skeptical tome.