Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Year 1981. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> An exciting guide to the fringes of knowledge this book is a directory to all the areas of knowledge and apparent knowledge where uncertainty lies – from ghosts to genetic engineering from the Bermuda Triangle to black holes from Kaspar Hauser to the heat death of the Universe. Contributors in many fields recount the latest discoveries and speculations in seven main areas: Mythology and the Ancient World The Occult and Miraculous Strange Creatures and Unusual Events Time in Disarray Inner Space: Mind and Body Outer Space: The Universe at Large and The World of Tomorrow. In addition there is an extensive alphabetical directory of minor topics important personages and sites and intriguing improbabilities. Much of the subject matter of this book is by its very nature sensational and controversial but the tone adopted throughout is one of rational inquiry rather than of eager gullibility. And the text is more than just a review of matter available in scattered sources: some of the ideas put forward here have never before appeared in print. (SP)