THE SNOWMAN AND COMPANY
London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Poor. Item #SHEL2051
1st printing, getting a little scarce now. Cloth. 173pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. Postscript. Foreword by Eric Shipton. A near fine copy in the blue binding. The dj is poor; missing the front flap and the lower1/3 of the backstrip is torn away. This book needs to be on the shelf of any serious Yeti, Abominable Snowman, and even Bigfoot / Sasquatch collector in spite of the criticisms directed to her "documented" on Wiki: Tchernine is best known for writing several books on the abominable snowman or yeti, such as In Pursuit of the Abominable Snowman, Taplinger Publishing, 1971. Before In Pursuit, she published The Snowman and Company. Initially a socialite and novelist, she earned a reputation from the 1950s through the 1970s "as one of Britain's most formidable monster hunters." Tchernine's books on the yeti were criticized by academics. Richard Carrington wrote that the treatment of the yeti in Tchernine's The Snowman and Company is uncritical and she presented no reliable evidence for its existence. He concluded that the book was well written but only the credulous or romantic reader will find it entertaining. Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf stated that Tchernine's data on the yeti that she took from Russian sources are too contradictory and vague to be regarded as reliable evidence.
Price: $50.00