Heuvelmans: on the Track of Unknown an - Softcover

Heuvelmans, Professor Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262580209 ISBN 13: 9780262580205

Publisher: MIT Press, 1972

Synopsis

Dozens of strange animals have been discovered since the beginning of the 19th century when Georges Cuvier, the "Father of Paleontology," categorically stated his doubt that any large animals were still unknown. In this book, translated and abridged by Richard Garnett, Heuvelmans examines the evidence about animals in lost or little-known worlds--still undiscovered or unrecognized by science. He traces the history of the moa, the giant sloth, and the mammoth, and tracks down the Ape Man of Sumatra, the Not So Abominable Snowman, the Incredible Australian Bunyips, and the Little Hairy Men--enlivening (if that is possible!) his search with 78 drawings and 32 halftones.

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Review:

"Dr. Heuvelmans's thesis is that orthodox zoologists have always been unbearably stodgy with respect to these matters. They have refused recognition to such phenomena as... 'The Queensland Marsupial Tiger, ' 'The Dragon St. George Did Not Kill, '--and sundry other similar fauna, the existence of which has been persistently reported by lowly, non-degree-carrying natives everywhere as well as by explorers and others...the effect is rather overwhelming and intriguing even if none of it turns out to be true, and the questions he raises must, it seems, remain open."-- "Library Journal" "This entertaining volume is as good a guide book to the undiscovered as could be had."-- "The New York Times Book Review"

From the Back Cover:

On the Track of Unknown Animals presents evidence for the existence of numerous other large animals which have been reported by local people, but which have not yet been identified and described by science. The still 'hidden' animals presented here include the man-faced creatures of Southeast Asia, the living fossils of Oceania, the reported giant sloth and still unknown apes of South America, stories of mammoths still ranging over the Siberian taiga, as well as descriptions of many as yet unexplained strange creatures of the African jungles. A current topic of leading interest in cryptozoology is the accumulating body of evidence that Neanderthal Man - a relative of modern man but a separate species from Homo sapiens - almost surely lived simultaneously with modern man into historic times, and is probably still living in remote jungles and mountain fastnesses of the Asian Continent.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0262580209
• ISBN 13: 9780262580205
• Binding: Paperback