{"id":1861,"date":"2018-06-22T18:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2018-06-22T18:20:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:20:49","slug":"had-jack-kerouac-encountered-bigfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"Had Jack Kerouac Encountered Bigfoot&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/MH-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-thumbnail wp-image-1817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/MH-sm-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"MH-sm\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Readers of Avrel Seale&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=97\"><strong><em>Monster Hike: A 100-Mile Inquiry Into the Sasquatch Mystery<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, see classic qualities to the book, tossing out associations to <em>Walden Pond<\/em>, <em>Moby Dick<\/em>, and Jack Kerouac. Andrew Griffin, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddirtreport.com\/rustys-reads\/monster-hike-takes-author-and-reader-texas-wilderness-search-bigfoot\"><em>Red Dirt Report<\/em><\/a>, writes: &#8220;There is something <em>Walden<\/em>-ish about <em>Monster Hike<\/em> that I did not anticipate when I first picked it up&#8230;I\u2019m glad I read <em>Monster Hike<\/em> because I appreciated Seale&#8217;s honesty and wonderment, even at his age [50], when we are told that believing such creatures exist is plain silly. Seale gives us some positive philosophy, personal insights, a bit of Texas history and a sense that pushing forward is what keeps us all asking those big questions.&#8221; Nick Redfern cranks up the praise in his <a href=\"http:\/\/mysteriousuniverse.org\/2018\/01\/monster-hike-a-new-bigfoot-book-reviewed\/\"><em>Mysterious Universe<\/em><\/a> review: &#8220;It\u2019s a witty, amusing and adventurous saga of one man\u2019s quest to try and uncover the truth of what lies at the heart of the Sasquatch mystery&#8230;. In a highly entertaining fashion, [Seale] details the planning, hazards, and hopes that go with a road-trip in the dense woods and forests of East Texas&#8230;As the book progresses&#8230;we see Seale become a modern day equivalent of Captain Ahab, while the legendary white whale has mutated into a massive, hairy hominid&#8230;If\u2014when he was hanging out at Big Sur in the 1950s\u2014Jack Kerouac had encountered a Bigfoot and he was a bit older, this is the book he would have written.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of Avrel Seale&#8217;s new book, Monster Hike: A 100-Mile Inquiry Into the Sasquatch Mystery, see classic qualities to the book, tossing out associations to Walden Pond, Moby Dick, and Jack Kerouac. Andrew Griffin, in Red Dirt Report, writes: &#8220;There is something Walden-ish about Monster Hike that I did not anticipate when I first picked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monster-hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}