Title:
Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids
Author:
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Publication Date:
2013
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2013].
Physical Description:
xvi, 411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780231153201
Abstract:
Loxton and Prothero complete an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on demonstrably false phenomena, presenting both the arguments for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience perpetuating their myths.
Contents:
Cryptozoology : real science or pseudoscience? -- Bigfoot : the Sasquatch -- The Yeti : the Abominable Snowman -- Nessie : the Loch Ness monster -- The evolution of the sea serpent : from Hippocamp to Cadborosaurus -- Mokele Mbembe : the Congo dinosaur -- Why do people believe in monsters? : the complexity of cryptozoology.
Language:
English
