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Charles Fort's classic recording of unexplained, paranormal events
and phenomena offer fascinating insights into bizarre occurrences
the author felt had been unjustly damned from formal, scientific
study. The title derives from the author's perception that the
book's subjects were so stigmatized and excluded from ordinary
scientific inquiry that they had become 'damned'. Perhaps
permanently forbade for formal study, the oddities and unexplained
events in this text were felt worthy of attention by the author,
who eventually became an authority on anomalous phenomena. The
topics in Fort's thesis include unexplained disappearances of large
groups of people, frogs and fish suddenly raining from the sky, the
possibility that mythical beasts such as giants exist, UFOs
manifest as glowing and sometimes moving lights in the sky, and
bizarre weather phenomena. Fort attributes credence to many of
these oddities, and argues that science - by dismissing them - has
become a religion in itself.
"Wild Talents" captures Charles Fort at his finest, most thought
provoking, and wittiest. Containing accounts of-among numerous
other bizarre topics-strange coincidences, vampires, werewolves,
talking dogs, poltergeist activity, teleportation, witchcraft,
vanishing people, spontaneous human combustion, and the escapades
of the 'mad bats of Trinidad, ' the book is essential reading for
anyone wanting to learn about the early years of research into the
myriad mysteries of this world and beyond.
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Lo! (Hardcover)
Charles Fort
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R922
Discovery Miles 9 220
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
New Lands was the second nonfiction book of the author Charles
Fort, written in 1925. It deals primarily with astronomical
anomalies. Fort expands in this book on his theory about the
Super-Sargasso Sea - a place where earthly things supposedly
materialize in order to rain down on Earth - as well as developing
an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As
evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including
strange "mirages" of land masses, groups of people, and animals in
the skies. He also continues his attacks on scientific dogma,
citing a number of mysterious stars and planets that scientists
failed to account for.
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Lo! (Hardcover)
Charles Fort
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R1,130
Discovery Miles 11 300
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Charles Fort's parade of scientific anomalies frames the larger
anomaly that is human existence. "Lo!" 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.
Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing
poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and
frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was
originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book
remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking
research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the
imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific
explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and
documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers
and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was
somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching
these strange events and collected these reports from publications
sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series
of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this
day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often
stranger than fiction, then this book is for you.
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Lo! (Hardcover)
Charles Fort
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R965
Discovery Miles 9 650
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Charles Fort's parade of scientific anomalies frames the larger
anomaly that is human existence. "Lo " 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.
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Wild Talents captures Charles Fort at his finest, most
thought-provoking, and is considered his wittiest work. Containing
accounts of--among numerous other bizarre topics--strange
coincidences, vampires, werewolves, talking dogs, poltergeist
activity, teleportation, witchcraft, vanishing people, spontaneous
human combustion, and the escapades of the 'mad bats of Trinidad.'
This is essential reading for those who want to learn about the
early years of research into the myriad mysteries of this world and
beyond. CHARLES HOY FORT (1874-1932), life-long naturalist and
independent journalist, wrote ten novels, though only one, The
Outcast Manufacturers (1906), was published in the U.S. - critics
said it was ahead of its time, but it was commercially
unsuccessful. His most recognized work, The Book of the Damned
(1919), referred to "damned data" that Fort collected, phenomena
for which science could not account and was thus rejected or
ignored. Upon his death in 1932, more than 60,000 notes were
donated to The New York Public Library.
This scholarly exploration of the borderlands between science and fantasy features four complete works by the redoubtable Charle Fort (1874-1932): The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands. All concern the bizarre phenomena unexplained by traditional science that the author spent the better part of three decades documenting: flying saucers, telekinesis, sudden showers of fish from the sky, stigmata, poltergeists, and spontaneous combustion (to name a few). Fort's florid style and freakish subjects were much critiziced by his contemporaries, but he was defended and admired by an equal number of readers, including such noteworthies as Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Stimulating, bewildering, and intoxicating, this intellectual tour de force is a must for lovers of science fiction as well as science facts.
The Fortean Collection is comprised of all five existing books by
Charles Fort, THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED, NEW LANDS, LO , WILD TALENTS,
and his only novel THE OUTCAST MANUFACTURERS. The Outcast
Manufacturers is the only published novel by Charles Fort. Fort
wrote ten novels, though only one, The Outcast Manufacturers was
published in 1909 and was later serialized in the American edition
of Pearson's Magazine. Only five chapters were published in
Pearson's. The Book of the Damned deals with various types of
anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic
and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the
possible existence of creatures generally held to be mythological,
disappearances of people under strange circumstances, and many
other phenomena, the book is historically considered to be the
first written in the specific field of anomalistics. The title of
the book referred to what he termed the "damned" data - data which
had been damned, or excluded, by modern science because of its not
conforming to accepted guidelines. Wild Talents recounts a wide
variety of odd phenomena, Fort largely disregards his previous
teleportation theory. Rather than a vague "Cosmic joker," as he
postulated in his earlier books, the responsibility for these
occurrences are freak powers that occur in the human mind, that
cannot be naturally developed, but are there as a sort of throwback
to primeval times. New Lands deals primarily with astronomical
anomalies. Fort expands in this book on his theory about the
Super-Sargasso Sea - a place where earthly things supposedly
materialize in order to rain down on Earth - as well as developing
an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. Lo was
details a wide range of unusual phenomena. In the final chapter of
the book he proposes a new cosmology that the earth is stationary
in space and surrounded by a solid shell which is (in the book's
final words) .." not unthinkably far away." Charles Fort's parade
of scientific anomalies frames the larger anomaly that is human
existence. Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher
into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are
used to characterize various such phenomena.
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of
the author Charles Fort. Dealing with various types of anomalous
phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and
inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the
possible existence of creatures generally held to be mythological,
disappearances of people under strange circumstances, and many
other phenomena, the book is historically considered to be the
first written in the specific field of anomalistics. The title of
the book referred to what he termed the "damned" data - data which
had been damned, or excluded, by modern science because of its not
conforming to accepted guidelines. Fort believed that mainstream
scientists are trend followers who believe in what is accepted and
popular, and never look for a truth that may be contrary to what
they believe. Fort was one of the first major writers to deal
extensively with paranormal and thus The Book of the Damned should
be considered an important and formulative work. Charles Hoy Fort
was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.
Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize
various such phenomena.
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