New Lands: With an introduction by Booth Tarkington - Tapa blanda

“Fort’s books not only liberate the mind from those sublimated herd-dogmas of science...they also liberate the mind from all sorts of other prepossessions and idolatries of the market place.” -John Cowper Powys

“To read Charles Fort is to ride on a comet!’ -The New York Times

The unorthodox book that asks questions which orthodox science does not answer...thought provoking, astounding, outrageous – the truth about inexplicable phenomena by the man who has shot the scientific basis of modern wisdom full of large holes. Charles Fort's parade of scientific anomalies frames the larger anomaly that is human existence. New Lands 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.

Born in Albany, New York, in 1874, Charles Fort made the study of unexplained phenomena his life’s work. After achieving modest success as a short-story writer and novelist, Fort began his work researching anomalous phenomena in the early 1920s, tirelessly cataloguing episodes of spontaneous combustion, spaceships, poltergeists, and other experiences and events that had been written off by science. A lasting influence on the evolution of science fiction as well as on science itself, Fort remains one of the most fascinating and polarizing figures in all of Americana. He died in 1932 in New York City.