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Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide

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“Fast claiming his place as one of the vital country’s finest natural history writers, Pyle takes to the hills looking for Bigfoot in this absorbing, classily written field report. Pyle makes all of the right connections. Best of all, he loves a good mystery and is smart enough, open and radical enough, to never say never.” ―Kirkus Reviews

Awarded a Guggenheim to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Dr. Robert Pyle trekked into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount St. Helens, where he discovered both a giant fossil footprint and up to date tracks. He searched out Indians who told him of an outcast tribe, the Seeahtiks, who had not fully evolved into humans. He attended Sasquatch Daze, where he met scientists, hunters, and others who have devoted their lives to the search, and realized that “these guys don’t need to find Bigfoot―they need to be Bigfoot!” A handful of open-minded biologists and anthropologists countered the tabloids he studied, even as rogue Forest Service employees and loggers swore of an industry conspiracy to deep-six accounts of unknown, upright hominoid apes among us.

In the years since publication, the creator’s fresh experiences and finds―detailed in an all-new chapter which includes an evaluation of up to date DNA evidence from Bigfoot hair and scat, the study of speech phonemes in the “Sierra Sounds” purported Bigfoot recordings, Pyle’s examination of the have an effect on of the wildly popular Animal Planet series Bigfoot Hunters, the reemergence of the famous Bob Gimlin into the Bigfoot community, and more―have kept his own mind wide open to one of the vital biggest questions in the land.
A search for the Pacific Northwest’s fabled Bigfoot provides a jumping-off point for nature creator Robert Michael Pyle’s lyrical ruminations on wilderness, isolation, and the occasional triumphs of mystery over so-known as progress. Pyle’s well-researched stomping ground is Washington State’s Dark Divide in the Cascade Mountains–this rugged country of loggers and recreationists has been the scene for many sightings of the elusive man-beast. Pyle’s route alternates between desolate clear-cuts and majestic ancient forests, between the inroads of civilization and the dark recesses of the wild. But never does the creator get too caught up in proving anything to himself or the reader; this search for Bigfoot has as much to do with locating the wild nature within each of us as it does with finding a legend.

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