|
Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > Extraterrestrial beings
|
Buy Now
The Secrets of Dellschau - The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the 1800s, A True Story (Paperback)
Loot Price: R592
Discovery Miles 5 920
|
|
|
The Secrets of Dellschau - The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the 1800s, A True Story (Paperback)
 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R592
Discovery Miles 5 920
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Charles A. A. Dellschau was born on June 4, 1830, in Brandenburg,
Prussia, and immigrated to the United States in 1853, first
settling in Texas. The historical record falls silent until 1860,
when he is again shown living in Texas, where he marries Antonia
Hilt the following year. The so-called "lost years" of the
secretive Dellschau's life became a matter of controversy when his
voluminous, illustrated notebooks surfaced nearly a half-century
after his death in 1923 at age 93. Dellschau literally spent the
last 20 years of his life closeted away in an attic apartment,
creating a fantastical body of art that continues to fascinate.
Indeed, today Dellschau is recognized as one of America's leading
visionary artists, ranked alongside such world luminaries as Henry
Darger and Adolf W l i. A single page of one of his notebooks now
fetches thousands of dollars - and there are thousands of such
pages, frenetic productivity being a hallmark of visionary artists.
But Dellschau's work - consisting of ink and watercolor
illustrations of fanciful flying machines to which he frequently
pasted newspaper clippings, or "press blooms" as he called them -
appears to tell a coherent story of the Sonora (California) Aero
Club. Using an anti-gravity gas purportedly invented by one of its
members, The Club allegedly turned out a series of experimental
aircraft some 50 years before the Wright Brothers first took wing.
A mere flight of artistic fancy? Or did Dellschau actually spend
his lost years documenting wildly improbable inventions? Were the
Aero Club's airships also responsible for many UFO sightings in
America? "The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club & The
Airships of The 1800s, a True Story" is the first book-length
account of Dellschau's life and work.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
