Year of the Yeti Begins Now!
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 3rd, 2008
This Friday will be the official launch of the new publication of the reasonably-priced hardback edition of Ivan T. Sanderson’s classic book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, from Cosimo Classics. This new printing contains a new preface I’ve written, and I will have a few copies, hot off the press, literally, for sale at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.
I also will have copies of two other books I’ve written that contain large sections about the Yeti: Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology and The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide to sell and autograph.
(If you can’t make it to the New York event, but want your own personalized autographed copy of the new ABSM book or any of the others, please email me directly at [email protected] )
The Rubin Museum of Art – the museum of Himalayan art in New York – has asked me to introduce the 1957 classic film The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas on Friday, January 4, 2008, at 9:30 p.m. I will be doing the book signing before opening the film.
If you have seen the film, you will recall that the movie’s Yeti displays an uncanny extraspecial ability for telepathy.
The Rubin Museum of Art is located at 150 West 17th Street, New York, New York.
See you there.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
That’s very cool, Loren!
Always nice to see a classic like this volume still in print.
Living now in Santa Fe, New Mexico (after living 20 years in New York City), I will sadly not be able to make the trip.
But thanks, Loren, for helping to oversee this reprint. Long ago I lent my first edition copy to someone, and it has never returned. Now I’ll be able to replace it! (And it was the contents, not the fact that it was a first edition, that I lamented losing).
I love that movie as well, which I think an intelligent and very wise film indeed. No sensationalism or cheap scares. Instead, a highly engrossing depiction of how the ABSM phenomenon (and perhaps by extension, other, similar crypto-phenomena [bigfoot, for example]) psychologically affects the human imagination.
Great. I shall probably be getting this new re-print at some stage. As for the movie, I love it. You can’t beat those old 1950s and 1960s Hammer productions.
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF THE HIMALAYAS is my personal favorite of all the Sasquatch/Yeti films.
i especially love the screenplay, which is very taut and was written by Nigel Kneale, who also scripted the cult favorite Prof. Quatermass series (FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH, et al).
only wished the Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin would have you next, Loren! 😉