This book is a reflection on people's fascination with Bigfoot, and marginally the author's fascination with the people in question. It takes great care not to be judgmental, though the portrait that emerges between the lines is still evocative of rural white America. I read this in part hoping to find fodder for a short unit I teach freshman science majors about cryptozoology and I largely came up empty-handed. Where Bill Bryson serves his reflections on nature with a healthy side of hard facts, this book relies mostly on the musings of the author. Everyone's entitled to their Walden, I guess, it just isn't what I was looking for.