Lo! was the third published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort. In it he 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. "Lo!" is a book with the capacity to rewire brains and sculpt new lenses for seeing the unexpected, the ...
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Lo! was the third published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort. In it he 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. "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. 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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Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials.
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Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials.
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Very good. (X-9) Mass Market paperback is in VG condition with wear at spine corners, creases in spine, light creases at spine edge, light overall wear. 284 p. 18 cm ppbk
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Good. No Jacket. Book First paperback ed. Good condition, over all wear, inside of covers very yellowed, crease to upper right corner of front cover. Ace #K-217.
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Acceptable. No Jacket. Acceptable+/Good-in illus wraps. Corner wear, rubbing along extremities; front wrap creased 1" in from foredge up entire wrap, other creases. Interior clean, tight, unmarked. "A brilliant, fascinating, endlessly controversial writer."--cover copy Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
