Author: Elaine Landau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781562943493
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Introduces the yeti or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, recounts sightings throughout history, and considers the reliability of the evidence advanced as proof of its existence.
Yeti, Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
Author: Elaine Landau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781562943493
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Introduces the yeti or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, recounts sightings throughout history, and considers the reliability of the evidence advanced as proof of its existence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781562943493
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Introduces the yeti or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, recounts sightings throughout history, and considers the reliability of the evidence advanced as proof of its existence.
Yeti
Author: Graham Hoyland
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008279523
Category : Bhutan
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What leads us to believe in monsters? What happens when we meet the brutal creatures of our nightmares?
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008279523
Category : Bhutan
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What leads us to believe in monsters? What happens when we meet the brutal creatures of our nightmares?
Searching for Yeti
Author: Laura Anne Gilman
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448847893
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Looks at the legendary creature said to inhabit the Himalaya Mountains, including the history of its sightings, and the inconclusive evidence that has been offered to prove its existence.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448847893
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Looks at the legendary creature said to inhabit the Himalaya Mountains, including the history of its sightings, and the inconclusive evidence that has been offered to prove its existence.
My Quest for the Yeti
Author: Reinhold Messner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312270780
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Climbing solo in Eastern Tibet in 1986, Reinhold Messner confronted . . . something. Since that moment, he has been obsessed with what the Western media has called the "abominable snowman". Widely considered the greatest living mountain climber, Messner had found his greatest challenge--to solve the age old mystery of the yeti. Photos.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312270780
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Climbing solo in Eastern Tibet in 1986, Reinhold Messner confronted . . . something. Since that moment, he has been obsessed with what the Western media has called the "abominable snowman". Widely considered the greatest living mountain climber, Messner had found his greatest challenge--to solve the age old mystery of the yeti. Photos.
Yeti
Author: Daniel C. Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199091366
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
As it turned out, young Daniel never outgrew the enchantment of the mysterious Yeti, the Abominable Snowman. His search for the enigmatic creature of Himalayan legends spread over many decades: from 1956 until 2015, Daniel C. Taylor visited almost all valley systems in his quest to explain the ‘Yeti’s footprints’. But to his surprise, solving the footprint mystery did not answer the Yeti question. As his quest evolved, Taylor went on to create two massive national parks around Mount Everest. Equipped with abundant knowledge of the Himalaya, Taylor tells a story that is captivating and full of surprises. He looks back at his exploration of the 2,000-mile-wide Himalaya and talks about bioresilience as a parallel dynamic to biodiversity, thus widening the scope of our understanding of ecology. Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery is the extraordinary story of one man’s conservation impact and what it means for people to be part of the wild in today’s increasingly tamed world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199091366
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
As it turned out, young Daniel never outgrew the enchantment of the mysterious Yeti, the Abominable Snowman. His search for the enigmatic creature of Himalayan legends spread over many decades: from 1956 until 2015, Daniel C. Taylor visited almost all valley systems in his quest to explain the ‘Yeti’s footprints’. But to his surprise, solving the footprint mystery did not answer the Yeti question. As his quest evolved, Taylor went on to create two massive national parks around Mount Everest. Equipped with abundant knowledge of the Himalaya, Taylor tells a story that is captivating and full of surprises. He looks back at his exploration of the 2,000-mile-wide Himalaya and talks about bioresilience as a parallel dynamic to biodiversity, thus widening the scope of our understanding of ecology. Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery is the extraordinary story of one man’s conservation impact and what it means for people to be part of the wild in today’s increasingly tamed world.
Myth
Author: G. S. Kirk
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520342372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of developed social institutions and literacy; the character and meaning of ancient Near-Eastern myths and their influence on Greece; the special forms taken by Greek myths and their involvement with rational modes of thought; the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as allied with dreams, as universal symbols, or as accidents of primarily narrative aims. Almost none of these problems has been convincingly handled, even in a provisional way, up to the present, and this failure has vitiated not only such few general discussions as exist of the nature, meanings and functions of myths but also, in many cases, the detailed assessment of individual myths of different cultures. The need for a coherent treatment of these and related problems, and one that is not concerned simply to propagate a particular universalistic theory, seems undeniable. How far the present book will satisfactorily fill such a need remains to be seen. At least it makes a beginning, even if in doing so it risks the criticism of being neither fish nor fowl. Sociologists and folklorists may find it, from their specialized viewpoints, a little simplistic in places; and a few classical colleagues will not forgive me for straying far beyond Greek myths, even though these can hardly be understood in isolation or solely in the light of studies in cult and ritual. Others may find it less easy than anthropologists, sociologists, historians of thought or students of French and English literature to accept the relevance of Levi-Strauss to some of these matters; but his theory contains the one important new idea in this field since Freud, it is complicated and largely untested, and it demands careful attention from anyone attempting a broad understanding of the subject. The beliefs of Freud and Jung, on the other hand, are a more familiar element in the situation and have given rise to an enormous secondary literature, much of it arbitrary and some of it absurd. The author has tried to isolate the crucial ideas and subject them to a pointed, if too brief, critique; so too with those of Ernst Cassirer.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520342372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of developed social institutions and literacy; the character and meaning of ancient Near-Eastern myths and their influence on Greece; the special forms taken by Greek myths and their involvement with rational modes of thought; the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as allied with dreams, as universal symbols, or as accidents of primarily narrative aims. Almost none of these problems has been convincingly handled, even in a provisional way, up to the present, and this failure has vitiated not only such few general discussions as exist of the nature, meanings and functions of myths but also, in many cases, the detailed assessment of individual myths of different cultures. The need for a coherent treatment of these and related problems, and one that is not concerned simply to propagate a particular universalistic theory, seems undeniable. How far the present book will satisfactorily fill such a need remains to be seen. At least it makes a beginning, even if in doing so it risks the criticism of being neither fish nor fowl. Sociologists and folklorists may find it, from their specialized viewpoints, a little simplistic in places; and a few classical colleagues will not forgive me for straying far beyond Greek myths, even though these can hardly be understood in isolation or solely in the light of studies in cult and ritual. Others may find it less easy than anthropologists, sociologists, historians of thought or students of French and English literature to accept the relevance of Levi-Strauss to some of these matters; but his theory contains the one important new idea in this field since Freud, it is complicated and largely untested, and it demands careful attention from anyone attempting a broad understanding of the subject. The beliefs of Freud and Jung, on the other hand, are a more familiar element in the situation and have given rise to an enormous secondary literature, much of it arbitrary and some of it absurd. The author has tried to isolate the crucial ideas and subject them to a pointed, if too brief, critique; so too with those of Ernst Cassirer.
Abominable Science
Author: Daniel Loxton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231153201
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Presents arguments for and against the existence of five notable cryptids and challenges the pseudoscience that furthers their legendary statuses, while providing an exploration of the nature and subculture of cryptozoology.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231153201
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Presents arguments for and against the existence of five notable cryptids and challenges the pseudoscience that furthers their legendary statuses, while providing an exploration of the nature and subculture of cryptozoology.
Himalayan Anthropology
Author: James F. Fisher
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110806495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110806495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
The Yeti
Author: Larry Peters
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Abominable Snowman
Author: R. A. Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942545029
Category : Large type books.
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The reader, as an expert mountain climber, embarks on an expedition in the Himalayas to find the Yeti and rescue a fellow climber. By choosing the specific pages, the reader determines the outcome of the plot.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942545029
Category : Large type books.
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The reader, as an expert mountain climber, embarks on an expedition in the Himalayas to find the Yeti and rescue a fellow climber. By choosing the specific pages, the reader determines the outcome of the plot.