“Fort’s books not only liberate the mind from those sublimated herd-dogmas of science…they also liberate the mind from all sorts of other prepossessions and idolatries of the market place.” -John Cowper Powys “To read Charles Fort is to ride on a comet!’ -The New York Times The unorthodox book that asks questions which orthodox science does not answer…thought provoking, astounding, outrageous – the truth about inexplicable phenomena by the man who has shot the scientific basis of modern wisdom full of large holes. Charles Fort's parade of scientific anomalies frames the larger anomaly that is human existence. New Lands is a book with the capacity to rewire brains and sculpt new lenses for seeing the unexpected, the unexplained--and perhaps for glimpsing our own role in Fort's mystifying cosmic scheme.
Born in Albany, New York, in 1874, Charles Fort made the study of unexplained phenomena his life’s work. After achieving modest success as a short-story writer and novelist, Fort began his work researching anomalous phenomena in the early 1920s, tirelessly cataloguing episodes of spontaneous combustion, spaceships, poltergeists, and other experiences and events that had been written off by science. A lasting influence on the evolution of science fiction as well as on science itself, Fort remains one of the most fascinating and polarizing figures in all of Americana. He died in 1932 in New York City.
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Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G0722136277I4N00
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Vendeur : Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australie
Paperback. Etat : Good. 1st of This Edition. An ageing but firm clean book, appears unread. N° de réf. du vendeur 029905
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Vendeur : Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande
Softcover. Etat : Good. Lacking half-title leaf. Blurb from half-title leaf cut out and pasted down on title page. Previous owner's name on title page and page edges. Moderate foxing.; 1974 reprint of a title first published in 1923. 206, [2] pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 178 x 106mm. Fort suggests the Earth may be stationary, and the stars are holes in a kind of canopy over the Earth. He uses evidence such as stones falling from outer space to the same locations on earth on multiple occasions, which would be unlikely if the Earth were rotating and moving rapidly through space. Fort suggests objects falling to earth may come from lands above Earth. N° de réf. du vendeur 26573
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Vendeur : SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Soft cover. Etat : Good. Paperback. 18x11cm. 205 pages. Clean & tight. BROWNED PAGES. 1974 edition of a book first issued in 1923. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref hm. N° de réf. du vendeur 054311
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