The Yeti Society - Paperback

by Martin Sexton (Author)

One of the persistent contemporary American myths is of a giant, hairy, human-like beast, or Bigfoot, predominantly haunting the Pacific Northwest rainforest. But it is not a modern myth - it is a very old one. Long before Europeans arrived, indigenous native tribes across the vast continent had as many as one hundred names for it: Sasquatch being one that survives today. This myth intersects with another, thousands of miles away in the remote Himalayas, equally as old: the Yeti.In more recent times, on the highest mountain range in the world, inexplicable tracks in the snow and ice have left modern mountaineers baffled. These giant footprints uncannily echo those found in North America. Despite modernity and the pushback of nature, all attempts to extinguish the myth of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti have failed. It remains a powerful and resilient mystery.

Author Biography

Martin Sexton is a writer and artist who has exhibited widely including a solo exhibition at the 2015 Venice Biennale at the Gervasuti Foundation as well as Tate Britain, The Wolfsonian, The Poetry Library, Benaki Museum Athens, and the Hydra Museum. In 2015 he was awarded the Tithe Grant by The Blake Society, judged by Sir Alan Parker. He is an artist renowned for his investigations into the esoteric and the outer limits of consciousness. His practice can defy clear description; yet he refers to all of his work in whatever medium as writing and his practice has been referred to by critics as physical literature.