{"product_id":"in-the-footsteps-of-the-russian-snowman-9781909488304","title":"In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dmitri Bayanov\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: CFZ Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: CFZ Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Animals - Primates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussia - 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46486040051863,"sku":"9781909488304","price":1636.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781909488304.jpg?v=1766329025","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/in-the-footsteps-of-the-russian-snowman-9781909488304","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}