Ivan T. SandersonReseñas

Scoffers and unbelievers need not read further - but if you are open to the vast possibilities in the world, please, come on in.

While the Sasquatch/Yeti/Big Foot is relegated to the confines of disapproving discussions about little green men and things that go bump in the night, Sanderson looks at the possibility of their existence in multiple locations from an extremely scientific perspective. The data contained in the book is dated, as the first edition came out about 50 years ago, but it is eye-opening. He sets out to collect every account he can lay his hands or ears upon. The dates of the accounts collected themselves speak to the larger credibility of the phenomenon, as much of the available material exists before wide dissemination was possible. The accounts also debunk some of the myth surrounding the phenomenon, as the accounts make it clear that the creatures wouldn't exist in some of the climes associated with them. Sanderson also weaves in ecological information to describe the likelihood of the creatures existence, and their likely locations.

For some, the detailed ecological treatises in the middle of the book could become somewhat tiring, but he brings the necessity of the scientific effort home in the end, tying the accounts to the ecology of the locations and to the world-wide ecologies.

Sanderson is also not afraid to speak on the 'debunking' of the phenomenon and all the 'scientific' minds who've waxed poetic in an effort to forestall belief. And his treatment of these 'scientists' will leave you wary of blind acceptance without thought in any context.

If you're wondering, I believe - I don't want to believe - I do believe.

I dare you to read any edition of this book.

Highly Recommended!!!!!
5 bones!!!!

Interesting.

Illustrated book about all the plants,
animals and people
in all the jungles of the world.

Bookplate "Signed Copy". Title page: Sanderson (who was a friend of SEL) writes:
SIGNED (NOT BOUGHT) FOR STERLING ('THE NOISE') by IKE (Ivan T. Sanderson) IN DIASPORA.
On Acknowledgements page: SEL writes, "14 complete lies!" They start at 'The animal.." and end at "shows." Ivan at his worst, poor chap. One of the reasons why 90% of orthodox (standard0 zoologists distrusted him and his work. SEL

p. 270-271 SEL 1995 - Area between the two asterisks, complete nonsense. Not physical Anthropologist but Coon believed it when book pub. SEL It is about the possibility of multiple primates giving rise to humans - ironically - at this time (2013) evidence is mounting that just exactly might have happened.

We share the planet with about 12,000 kinds of mammals. They are incredibly varied, and survive in a variety of environments, usually through phylogenetic diversification. The Age of Mammals began about sixty million years ago, from tiny creatures going back perhaps 180 million years. Many more evolved and are extinct than now survive. [10]

"The average person probably does not even suspect the very existence of about ninety-five percent of extant mammals." [11]

The mammals have managed to fill "almost every niche". [12]½

It's Ivan T. Sanderson, writing about the Abominable Snowman: what more need be said, really?

This is probably the seminal book on the topic of anthropoid cryptids, still. He covers the whole world, with evidence of all kinds, and intriguing theories that never get in the way of asking the questions. And there are some tid-bits in this book that still remain entirely uninvestigated: why the "little red men of the trees" still gets no Google hints is beyond me.

While his prose is far from deathless, his lively storytelling skill is undeniable; while I could wish he'd put more of the scientist and less of the reporter into the book, it is fairly solid reporting. Both the most interesting and worst bit of this book is its age: some books are simply so tied to the time when they were written that it's impossible to see them as other than dated. The good thing about this is that it came out just as the world began to be seen as fully explored, when rugged men who wandered into an unknown forest for days with just a gun and a canteen were still alive and corresponded; just as cryptozoology was beginning to be what it is today, and before Bigfoot had become a pop-cultural phenomenon; so the evidence he presents here is almost all of it up-close and personal, and (compared to much modern Bigfoot research, at least) untainted by the romance of what has become a modern myth.

On the other hand, much of the modern evidence is simply not there yet, even with edits to bring the book up to date to 1968, and so it's only the beginning of the story. And it's quite inescapable that his attitude toward race is still very much that of the early 20th century explorer, secure in the knowledge that white people aren't *like* other people; it's not as horrid as it could be, and very much in tune with the time in which he wrote - he generally finds the "natives" superior to the whites, in a noble-savage sort of way - but it's inescapable, and makes him much harder to respect: particularly in a book that's meant explore the meaning of the category of "human".

This book is now freely available online at sacred-texts.org .½

1148 Invisible Residents: A Disquisition upon Certain Matters Maritime, and the Possibility of Intelligent Life under the Waters of This Earth, by Ivan T. Sanderson (read 8 Jan 1972) This was such a stupid book I made no note about it. I only read it because it was given me to read with much urging that I read it. It is sooo dumb!½

A biologist speculates about UFO's, oceanic light wheels and other anomalistic phenomenon.

Robert J. Durant Collection. Inscribed by author "To Robert Durant. With the author's compliments. Ivan T. Sanderson Nov/70"

Robert J. Durant Collection

Robert J. Durant Collection

Robert J. Durant Collection

Included Half Price Books receipt for 0.52 cents circa 04/05/93