{"title":"Robert Michael Pyle","description":"Robert Michael Pyle is the author of fourteen books, including Sky Time in Gray's River, Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal. 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On the trail of what he thought was legend, he searches out Indians who tell him of an outcast tribe, the Seeahtiks, who had not fully evolved into humans. A handful of open-minded biologists and anthropologists counter the tabloids Pyle studies, while rogue Forest Service employees and loggers swear of a vast conspiracy to deep-six true stories of unknown, upright hominoid apes among us. He attends Sasquatch Daze, where he meets scientists, hunters, and others who have devoted their lives to the search, only to realize that \"these guys don't want to find Bigfoot―they want to be Bigfoot!\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhere Bigfoot Walks\u003c\/i\u003e was the inspiration for the 2020 film \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Divide\u003c\/i\u003e, starring David Cross and Debra Messing. Since the book's original publication, Pyle's fresh experiences and findings have been added to his original work through an updated chapter. With an evaluation of recent DNA evidence from Bigfoot hair and scat, the study of speech phonemes in the \"Sierra Sounds\" purported Bigfoot recordings, an examination of the impact of the wildly popular Animal Planet series Bigfoot Hunters, the reemergence of the famous Bob Gimlin into the Bigfoot community, and more, \u003ci\u003eWalking With Bigfoot\u003c\/i\u003e keeps every Bigfoot enthusiast's mind wide open to one of the biggest questions in the land and brings Pyle's work on the \"legend\" of Bigfoot into the new century.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325826072799,"sku":"9781619029378","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bRTyW8Jv4n9781619029378_25705fd3-741f-4640-9973-28bd78d828cd.webp?v=1788451363"},{"product_id":"magdalena-mountain-paperback","title":"Magdalena Mountain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An elegant, eccentric novel of love, loneliness, and lepidoptera . . . 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At the center of this story of majesty and high mountain magic are three Magdalenas--Mary, a woman whose uncertain journey opens the book; Magdalena Mountain, shrouded in mystery and menace; and the all-black Magdalena alpine butterfly, the most elusive of several rare and beautiful species found on the mountain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And high in the Colorado Rocky Mountain wilderness, sharing the remote territory of the \u003ci\u003eErebia magdalena\u003c\/i\u003e butterfly, lives the enigmatic Oberon, a reluctant de facto leader of the Grove, a diverse community of monks who share a devotion to nature. 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