The unidentified : mythical monsters, alien encounters, and our obsession with the unexplained
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- ISBN: 9780525557562
- ISBN: 0525557563
- ISBN: 9780525557579
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Physical Description:
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307 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, [2020]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1. Sunken lands and falling meat. Field notes: Mount Shasta, California ; The man who could not be turned ; Abandoned geography ; The credulity of incredulity ; Dispatches from the desert of blood ; Believe nothing -- Part 2. The end of the monsters. Field notes: Darien, Georgia ; The Linnaean Society of New England versus the Glaucester sea serpent ; Spectacular taxonomy ; The edge of the map ; The home invasion ; Lost in translations ; Men, and wild men ; Believing is seeing -- Part 3. In these perilous times. Field notes: the White Mountains, New Hampshire ; Fragments ; An unimpeachable witness ; Welding ; A jittery age ; The call from Clarion ; Gray days ; Host-planet rejection syndrom -- Part 4. The world turned sour. Field notes: Rachel, Nevada ; The disinformation game ; The pilgrim's road ; Aliens on the land ; A horseman ; The surburban uncanny -- Part 5. The postapocalypic hangover. The comforts of lemuria ; Under the sign of coelacanth ; Elegies ; Creative mythology ; A philosophy of non-facts -- Conclusion: What remains. |
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