{"product_id":"in-the-footsteps-of-the-dmitri-bayanov-9781909488304","title":"In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman","description":"Russia - or to be exact, the Soviet Union - was the first country to probe the snowman riddle on a scientific basis. In 1958, in the post-Stalinist political thaw, the Soviet Academy of Sciences diverted itself for a time with the exotic and sensational subject of the Himalayan yeti. As the Academy had received reports of similar creatures in the mountains of Soviet Central Asia, it set up a special commission to collect evidence on the subject and launched a major expedition to the Pamirs to establish the existence of snowmen there. The expedition was a failure (this book explains why), and this put an end to official interest in the matter. Snowman studies (or 'hominology, ' to give its modern term) was declared by the academic establishment to be a pseudo-science, along with astrology and parapsychology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dmitri Bayanov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1909488305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781909488304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e CFZ Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d","brand":"Dmitri Bayanov","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983762718975,"sku":"9781909488304","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_07a6ebdf-4dff-47b7-8116-46b34971d881.jpg?v=1683268574","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-footsteps-of-the-dmitri-bayanov-9781909488304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}