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Thunderbirds: Americas Living Legends of Giant Birds
by Mark A. Hall
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| Editorial Review |
| Editorial Review |
| SOME VERY LARGE BIRDS are being sighted in the skies over North America. Described as an enormous black bird with a white ring around its long neck and a wingspan of up to 20 feet and more, this giant bird of prey has been sighted from Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest, and into the Midwest, Appalachia, and Pennsylvania. The accounts are puzzling and hard to believe yet eyewitnesses swear by what they saw. Evidence from around the world indicates that our ancestors knew and feared the bird, which can carry away small children and animals. In this compelling compilation of evidence, researcher Mark Hall presents the case for terrifying, monstrous bird that has roamed our continents since the days of the ancient legends of the Thunderbird. |
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| Product Details |
- Publisher: Paraview Press
- ISBN-10: 1-93104-497-X
- ISBN-13: 978-1-93104-497-4
- Amazon.com Sales Rank #986239
- Published on: November 04, 2004
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
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| Customer Review |
T. Condit ll: too sloppy  |
| I'm a big fan of anything cyrpto and was excited for this book a few years ago. Although it is full of differenct thunderbird encounters, opinions, and "facts", the book is too jumbled and sloppy. And also the encounters are just paper thin with no opinions or explanations... just the encounter itself. Which left much to be imagined. So if your looking for a book on thunderbird encounters then this should cover it, but if your looking for something more informative then look somewhere else. |
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M. Delauro: Very Good  |
Very good book. Intriguing. I have read many books on the subject of Cryptozoology, this book was refreshing in that it had a great deal of new and insightful information.
I have looked very hard for some of Mark Hall's previous books but cannot locate any.
It would be nice if Mr. Hall would write another book soon. |
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K. Maccullugh: Good book, very annoying metrics  |
| Recently purchased this book through Amazon, and am about halfway through. Was delighted to find a crypto book focused entirely on possibly surviving giant/prehistoric birds, and this one contains a wealth of information about the various incarnations of the 'Thunderbird', from distant times to the present. Hall's writing style is fine, and but for one thing I'd be thoroughly satisfied with the book. That's the insistance on following nearly every single reference to size or distance (height, weight, width, miles, etc.) with the metric equivalent. The first few times you see this it's not a problem, but when it repeats, and repeats, and repeats and repeats, page after page, chapter after chapter, it goes from being annoying and distracting to where you have to force yourself to continue reading. Since dimensions and distances are such an important element of the sightings, there aren't usually just one or two but a half dozen or more metric references on each page. Don't know if this would bother anyone else, but it certainly has decreased my enjoyment of the book. As far as I can determine, the author is American, living in the US, so all the metric references just seem unnecessary and pretentious. Include them in editions for the overseas market, but most of us here don't 'do metric', or care to have a good book ruined by their constant inclusion. |
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| Victoria A. Wildermuth: The Truth Is Out There |
| Don't waste your time reading long, ponderous reviews of this book. Here's the short of it. This book provides an excellent summary of Thunderbird mythology. If the book is flawed in any way, it is the lack of illustrations. However, the text provides a clear, concise overview of both modern accounts of sightings and Native American legends. Recommended. |
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Tinman: Dodos didn't fly...neither does this book!  |
| I'm not saying that Mark Hall's Thunderbirds are Dodos. I am saying that his ability to write a meaningful, logical, and realistic look at Thunderbirds in this book is much like the ability of a Dodo in trying to fly. I am a first time reviewer and I felt the need to warn others about this book. I am very surprised by the positive reviews here. Come on people!! I purchased this book hoping for some insight into Thunderbird folklore much like 1 or 2 of the other reviewers. It was so bad and so laughable that I loaned it to a Native American friend of mine and they laughed so hard they cried! I did some research on the author's website and found a plethora of snake oil books. Stick to the lizardman studies in the swamps and forget the birds. Now that's one big f*&#king chicken!!! |
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