The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold? - Couverture rigide

Gardner, Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0879751444 ISBN 13 : 9780879751449

Editeur : Prometheus Books UK, 1981

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Titanic's memory lives on today in documentaries, movies, and even a Broadway musical. Persistent investigators remain on the case, offering new theories to explain its demise.

Those who strongly believe in precognition point to Morgan Robertson's sea novel The Wreck of the Titan, published fourteen years before the Titanic went down, as proof of the power of extrasensory perception. This rare fifty-page novel is reproduced here in full, along with a selection of other writings that seem to foretell the Titanic's fate, including an excerpt from a novel by famous British journalist and spiritualist W.T. Stead, a short story called "The White Ghost of Disaster," and several poems about ships hitting icebergs in the North Atlantic.

Martin Gardner includes notes and running commentary that explore the coincidences and laws of chance as applied to this historical phenomenon. He also includes a new preface with reaction and updates to the original publication of The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?

Martin Gardner, a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, is the author of many books, including Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic, and Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus.

Biographie de l'auteur

Martin Gardner, the creator of Scientific American’s "Mathematical Games" column, which he wrote for more than twenty-five years, is the author of almost one hundred books, including The Annotated Ancient Mariner, Martin Gardner’s Favorite Poetic Parodies, From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr., and Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. For many years he was also a contributing editor to the Skeptical Inquirer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prometheus Books UK
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879751444
• ISBN 13: 9780879751449
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible