Hunting Monsters
Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths
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Eric Meyers
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Darren Naish
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The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and the yeti have long held a fascination for people the world over. Debates about their actual existence or what they might really be have continued for decades, if not centuries. Known also as cryptids, they have spawned a body of research known as cryptozoology. This entertaining book looks at the evidence of these mysterious monsters and others and explores what they might really be (if they exist at all), why they have been represented as they have, and the development of cryptozoology and how it has collected data to discover more about these unknown creatures.
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Adored by children and adults alike, tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, triceratops, or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. But despite the hype, tyrannosaurus and the other tyrannosaurs are fascinating animals in their own right and are among the best-studied of all dinosaurs.
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An Engaging Biography of the King
- By Erik on 08-06-18
By: David Hone
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The World Before Us
- The New Science Behind Our Human Origins
- By: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology.
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Wonderfully Accessible
- By Deborah N on 11-02-21
By: Tom Higham
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The Ancestor's Tale
- A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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In The Ancestor's Tale, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago. Throughout the journey, Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor's Tale is at once an essential education in evolutionary theory and riveting in its telling.
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Please do an unabridged version!
- By MovieExpertise on 09-29-16
By: Richard Dawkins
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Remarkable Creatures
- Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures. How did we learn so much so quickly? Remarkable Creatures celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the even more remarkable real story of how our world evolved.
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A Remarkable Journey
- By Michael Dowd on 03-22-09
By: Sean B. Carroll
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Underworld
- The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
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From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization.
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Fascinating
- By Michael Beeson on 05-13-19
By: Graham Hancock
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The Book of Yokai
- Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
- By: Michael Dylan Foster
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, listeners will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries on more than 50 individual creatures.
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Pt 2 was delightful (+no cringey pronunciations!!)
- By Julieanne on 06-04-19
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First Peoples in a New World
- Colonizing Ice Age America
- By: David J. Meltzer
- Narrated by: Christopher Prince
- Length: 11 hrs
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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.
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Last Gasp of American Anthropological Orthodoxy
- By Thomas66 on 01-05-17
By: David J. Meltzer
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Why Evolution Is True
- By: Jerry A. Coyne
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design", there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned: the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection.
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As great as everyone says it is
- By Joseph on 12-01-10
By: Jerry A. Coyne
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- By: Henry Nicholls
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to exotic creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. In The Galapagos, science writer Henry Nicholls offers a lively natural and human history of the archipelago, charting its evolution from deserted wilderness to scientific resource (made famous by Charles Darwin) and global ecotourism hot spot.
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Thought-Provoking
- By Jean on 10-23-18
By: Henry Nicholls
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The First Signs
- Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
- By: Genevieve von Petzinger
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language.
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Crawling through caves-a memoir
- By GraceAgnes on 01-27-21
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Denisovan Origins
- Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America
- By: Andrew Collins, Gregory L. Little
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 10 hrs
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Tracing the migrations of the Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas, Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago. They show how the Denisovans displayed sophisticated advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, celestially-aligned architecture, and horse domestication.
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There are better sources to get real information
- By cfeagans on 09-06-19
By: Andrew Collins, and others
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-20-20
This Year’s Textbook
If you’re looking for a book that credulously accepts eyewitness testimony of monsters at face value, look elsewhere. If you want to learn about scientific rigor AND THE social and psychological dimensions of mystery animals, this book is perfect. It’s going to be the textbook for my freshman seminar this year.
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- Ren
- 11-11-21
A skeptical and cultural look at some favorite monsters
If you’re familiar with the writing of Darren Naish already, whether from blogs or podcasts etc., this book is something of a “greatest hits” of his cryptozoological discussions. If you’re a fan of monsters from a cultural, historical and psychological standpoint then this book is for you. I never grow tired of expanding my historical understanding of these cultural phenomena and although I’m a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic there’s always great fun to be had to revisit these beasties that got a childhood me interested in science to begin with.
All-in-all a short and educationally rich listen.
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- Compost Girl
- 10-22-21
We should take back Cryptozoology
A very refreshing and level headed take at the cryptozology phenomena. Some seem to think it too critical, but it actully gives everything a fair shake and allows some room for praise to enthusiasts, while outlining the follies.
Some people tend to be blind believers in such subjects while others are more productive, and as someone with an interest in crypzoo, but disauded by the abundance of bad faith actors in the community, this book gives me hope one day a new movement more centered on scientific standards and anthropological value can come from this whole weird world of monster hunting.
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- jennifer smith
- 05-31-22
A must read
I loved every second of this audiobook. Darren Naish is an amazing author and this book is a must read title for anyone even remotely interested in cryptozoology. 10/10 Well worth the credit.
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- Mir
- 02-04-18
Delightfully no-nonsense take on cryptozoology
A very clear and focused examination on the cryptozoology and recorded cases of sightings. I do wish it had had a stronger coverage on the psychological and folkloristic aspects of cryptids and the surrounding phenomena, but perhaps such could’ve pushed the book too far into speculative territory.
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- zaaz
- 12-07-20
A monster book for the skeptical monster lover.
An interesting history of cryptozoology, without the usual patronizing mystery mongering. A great companion to Abominable science by Loxton and Prothero.
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- David S. Mitchell
- 08-22-23
Underwhelming and Disappointing
In general, I felt that the narrator did well, but the good things to say about this text end very soon thereafter. My sense was that, while I like some of Naish’s approach to considering cultural and social factors that could influence reports of cryptids, the great paucity of primary and secondary sources to back up the claims, the lack of illustrations or photos connected to cryptids, and the assumption that eyewitness testimony should be all but thrown out as evidence led me to find much to be desired in this text.
Further, as a social scientist (trained in developmental psychology) who has begun developing scholarship in parapsychology and cryptozoology, I find the disparagement of first-person memory and the paranormal as not being scientifically valid or reliable to be lacking in nuance at best and misleading/disingenuous at worst.
Moreover, the poor treatment of evidence in favor of the Patterson-Gimlin film, the Bossburg tracks, the Skokie casting, and some of the other audiovisual and trace evidence in support of relict hominoids felt like the very kind of cherry-picking of data that the author laments in cryptid believers and enthusiasts. The lack of robust support for Naish’s claims that hominoids such as Sasquatch are likely hoaxes or misidentifications led me to reconsider everything else that he said in the text. In other words, because of the lack of fair and rigorous discussion of the merits of the available evidence of these “cryptohominids” led me to take everything else that was stated in the text, both before and after this section, with a very large grain of salt.
If one were to take the book content at face value, one may come to believe that the only reason that cryptids exist is because of some cultural inclination to imagine them, some psychological compunction to misremember or misidentify real animals, or some combination thereof. But given the great wealth of data that exists on cryptids (which actually includes compelling, consistent narratives from Indigenous and other sources the world over), the exact opposite seems to be true, at least in the case of relict hominoids: while misidentifications and hoaxes surely exist, there is enough data to strongly suggest the existence of such beings. And despite what Naish May have the reader believe, there is actually very little to suggest that the Patterson-Gimlin film is a hoax. In fact, it is most likely still, over fifty years after it was taken, one of the best pieces of modern evidence available that suggests the existence of large, hairy hominoids unrecognized by contemporary Western science.
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