What are the 5 books that you feel must be in any credible BF library? I am guessing that the Green books will be right up there, but what about the others?

Out of the books I have read, I would have to say the following:

*The Bigfoot Casebook, by Janet & Colin Bord.
*Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, by John Green.
*Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence (1999), by Grover Krantz.
*Sasquatch/Bigfoot: The Search for North America's Incredible Creature, by Don Hunter & Rene Dahinden.
*The Search for Bigfoot: Monster, Myth, or Man, by Peter Byrne.

Reading "Meet the Sasquatch" now. Good reading so far, hope to read all the others listed. Thanks.

Sunflower

Those three, plus Peterson's Field Guide to Animal Tracks along with Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology. Might as well have a strong ground in what's known out there before you go looking for what's unknown.

Good ones BM, don't forget to add A Guide to Night Sounds, by Lang Elliot. The book is chocked full of great info and the companion CD I use religiously in identification. I also would recommend Tracking & the Art of Seeing, by Paul Rezendes.

I like these books. The one I really wanna get is the Tracking and the Art of seeing. It sounds like its a great reference book.

My top 5 books would be:
Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us-John Green
The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot-John Green
Meet The Sasquatch-Chris Murphy/John Green/Thomas Steenburg
The Bigfoot Casebook-Janet and Colin Bord
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science-Jeff Meldrum (I know this one is not out yet, but I think it's gonna be a must-have)

This is a good reference thread. Does anybody have any additions they'd like to make?

Sasquatch - The Apes Among Us by John Green

Where Bigfoot Walks - Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael Pyle

Bigfoot Exposed by David Daegling

Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti by Loren Coleman

Big Footprints by Grover Krantz

Here's a similar thread.

I suggest

John Green for history.

John Bindernagel's book for behavior and ecology. (He's supposed to be coming out with a new book this year.)

Grover Krantz for physical anthropology.

Jeff Meldrum for the most recent analysis of evidence.

Chris Murphy's "Meet the Sasquatch" for biographies of some influential researchers and lots of great photos.


Other recommendations include "Abominable Snowmen" by Ivan Sanderson (for a global perspective) and "Raincoast Sasquatch" by Robert Alley (for a great regional approach).

Meldrum or Krantz or Coleman's Bigfoot! as a basic reference. All are good but also somewhat redundant.

Daegling- for the flipside

Bindernagel (By the way, John is polishing off his new book.)

Murphy- for the best illustrated collection

and.....(hate to say it) Long should be a consideration. As problematic as it is, one really needs to know most of what he dug up.

Pyle's book is a really great read but it won't teach you much about the subject. I haven't read any of Green's books because I think they're mostly collections of anecdotes (?) which I'm not interested in, and I have Napier on my shelf (x2) but have yet to read it. And I think I started Wylie's book but never finished it.

-A

Then there's stuff like the "SAS Survival Handbook" by John Wiseman, and similar, which would be very insightful as regards food resources. Also has a load of stuff you should know if you're gonna go out in the woods much.

Other non-BF centric reading, some Fossey and Goodall, and stick a pile of National Geographics by the potty, lots of tangential anthropology, primate, archeology and palaentology stuff you can glean out of those.

Then for more "how the hell do they do it" type stuff you can look out stuff about escape and evasion techniques, elite forces operating procedure and tactics, some older stuff such as the WWII history of the SAS, LRDG and "PPA" is educational also, bearing in mind that hiding in the woods is childs play compared to hiding in the open desert behind the lines of Axis powers who had air superiority at the beginning of the campaign (Screwing that up was a big part of the mission) all without getting zapped or captured. Then top off with some sniper training material, both for insight into how not to be seen, but also how to see.

Then of course there's tracking manuals, general nature and geology books, (hint hydrology and trees and relationships could let you read the terrain better)

Then of course a recent copy of Skeptical Enquirer should be with you at all times while in the field, hermetically sealed in a ziploc bag... just in case you find yourself in need of dry tinder or TP. (j/k skeptics)

Flash.

My five favs are:

Legend Meets Science
I had to look up a lot on the net when I read the chapter on how the feet work. He is a Dr. after all.

Bigfoot:On the Track of Sasquatch John Green
I found a very early edition of one in a used book store and reading the plain and simple P/G film part was very interesting.

The Locals Thom Powell
Great book until the last couple of chapters when the UFO's come into play but the rest of the book has some very interesting stories and theories.

The Yowie: In search of Australia's Bigfoot Tony Healy & Paul Cropper
Tony is a great guy and I just had to list his book. Some great stories but we here in the U.S. think we don't have much "evidence."

Bigfoot Cinderrrrella Tony Johnson
Fun children's book. My Granddaughter LOVES this book.

I think Peregrine pretty much hit the nail on the head!

The new Bindernagel Book is a must Guys & Girls....

Hello,

Your books are so interesting. I like them very much. Please post more list of books on the forum so that we can share.


Cheers

You can find a fairly comprehensive list of books at the Squatchopedia.