Where Bigfoot Walks : Crossing the Dark Divide

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Summary: Where Bigfoot Walks
Review: Intersting book, the book keeps you thinking, Rober Michael Pyle makes you feel that you are on the Journey with him. A big plus for this book.++++++++++++ Eric J. MAzzi Pa

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Summary: ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Review: As a well-travelled and experienced Canadian naturalist who has seen most forms of rare wildlife on the continent, including the ghostly Kermode bear, I give this book a fat zero for content. The new insights and personal stories from others that Pyle adds to the record are simply not worth looking for in this verbose piece of crap. And he got a Guggenheim for this?

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Summary: Excellent writing, but doesn't live up to the hype.
Review: As somewhat of a skeptic, but still keeping an open mind, I enjoy topics such a 'bigfoot' when they're written intelligently and with a base of reason. As for "Where Bigfoot Walks", I should've looked at other reviews of this book a bit more, but when Midwest book review stated things like "...fascinating study of Bigfoot legends and realities..." I gambled- and lost. For outdoor enthusiasts, this is a rich story of a man's travels through the wilderness. And I must hand it to Mr. Pyle, he really does write well. It almost seems as if he anticipated readers interested in bigfoot to get bored with it quickly, like when he goes on about hitching rides from Indians because he runs out of water- or something like that, but his timing is right and just as you're about to toss the book aside he throws in something interesting enough to get you to keep reading. In the end though, it's all rather anticlimactic, and not what I was looking for.

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Summary: Excellent writing, but doesn't live up to the hype.
Review: As somewhat of a skeptic, but still keeping an open mind, I enjoy topics such a `bigfoot' when they're written intelligently and with a base of reason. As for "Where Bigfoot Walks", I should've looked at other reviews of this book a bit more, but when Midwest book review stated things like "...fascinating study of Bigfoot legends and realities..." I gambled- and lost. For outdoor enthusiasts, this is a rich story of a man's travels through the wilderness. And I must hand it to Mr. Pyle, he really does write well. It almost seems as if he anticipated readers interested in bigfoot to get bored with it quickly, like when he goes on about hitching rides from Indians because he runs out of water- or something like that, but his timing is right and just as you're about to toss the book aside he throws in something interesting enough to get you to keep reading. In the end though, it's all rather anticlimactic, and not what I was looking for.

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Summary: Rich, rewarding work from talented writer
Review: Face it, if you are looking for a book "about" Bigfoot, it is necessarily going to be slim. With no definitive proof that Bigfoot exists - no data to analyze, no pictures, no fossils, no bodies - the basic gist of purportedly "scientific" Bigfoot books boils down to a lot of speculating about second hand information. Interesting perhaps, but never convincing. You either believe or you don't. (And to be clear, I am a believer.)

On the other hand, a book about what it is in man - and his relationship to wilderness - that gives rise to the Bigfoot legend is far more compelling. Where Bigfoot Walks is just such a book. Beautifully written and engaging, the book uses the search for Bigfoot as a metaphor to characterize the endless search for meaning that occurs inside our own souls. Rooted in the holiest of wilderness areas, the Gifford Pinchot (luckily for me a stone's throw from Portland), Mr. Pyle takes an amazing journey into the heart of nature and emerges with a lesson for us all: man simultaneously is sustained by and seeks to tame, the solitude and endless potentials inherent in wilderness.

That the author fails to offer definitive proof of Bigfoot is of little consequence. His book stands as a testament to the power of the journey, no matter what destination is sought. It is also a glorious ode to the natural world. Bigfoot believers and nonbelievers alike should read this book. It won't convince skeptics, but it will frame the quest, quite elegantly, in a language accessible to all.

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Summary: Fun & Informative
Review: I acquired Dr. Pyle's book with the hope of exploring the Bigfoot phenomenon in an attempt to uncover why it has intrigued me so much over the years. In that regard this title performs excellently. In any discussion of Bigfoot, a discussion of wilderness must also be included. This book wraps its Bigfoot information and hunt in a interesting discourse on the status and possible fate of our amazing Pacific Northwest forests. While at times Pyle's eye for detail can be burdensome and his politics controversial, all in all this work is a great story of time spent in the world's most wonderful of places pursuing truth about one of the world's most amazing creatures

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Summary: ZZZzzzzzzzz continued
Review: I forgot to mention that if you're looking for good books on Bigfoot or Sasquatch, you start with Dr. John Bindernagel's 1998 summary, "North America's Great Ape: the Sasquatch" (available from Beachcomber Books in Courtney, B.C., 1-800-487-1494 or 250-338-8767). Wisely, wildlife biologist Bindernagel neglected to list Pyle's book in his excellent bibliography. John Green's "Sasquatch: the apes among us" is another classic worth reading.

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Summary: Beware the title
Review: I'll make this brief, for the people interested in bigfoot/sasquatch, forget all about this book. Now the good point... for the people that enjoy a well written book on a long nature walk, you'll eat this up. Pile is very detailed in his descriptions of nature and you should really enjoy this book. Bigfoot followers... not so much.

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Summary: more than bigfoot
Review: If you are a "Bigfoot Believer", a "Cryptid Connoisseur", or looking for photographs of huge hominids emerging from UFO's with Greys looking on, this ain't your book. If you are a regular person who loves nature and is intrigued by a good tale of "What If", this IS your book and you'll love it. Pyle shares with us his love for the Northwest and his concerns for its future. Yes this is largely a symbolic book, with "Bigfoot" symbolizing all we love, and fear, of those far forest places dark and deep and why we are fascinated with them. There is also a tinge of sadness in the book; the ravages of thoughtless environmental damage, the childish quarrels of Bigfoot "Experts". But this is largely a love story, about one last Wild Place, and how such places Haunt our imaginations. You'll love this book.