Summary

In Chapter 9: “The Reckoning,” Zada, Ellis, and Ellis’ son all make the slow return home from their chaotic trip to the woodland cabin, where they encountered a frightening bear. While making the lengthy trek with his companions, Zada begins to reflect on the cumulative effect of his travels across the province of British Columbia. For starters, he confronts himself and questions what he is really searching for when searching for the Sasquatch. In a sense, he questions his own motives. Zada calls this quest for information about the creature “quixotic” (271) and considers that, perhaps, Sasquatch hunters are really searching to learn more about their own species, to see the wildness that is innate in the Sasquatch and reminiscent of a phase of human history that is now lost. From that perspective, human sightings of Sasquatches are no more than a...