New Lands, Charles Fort
New Lands, Charles Fort
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New Lands

Author: Charles Fort

Narrator: Graham Dunlop

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/06/2022


Synopsis

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.Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher on June 09, 2010

A bit more scattered than either _The Book of the Damned_ or _Lo!_, but still as sarcastic and amusing, as well as outrageous to the proper authorities, as those works. Here he takes on Copernicus, Kepler, and Darwin with some interesting arguments.......more

Goodreads review by Will on March 13, 2023

*** This review was originally posted to Paperback Picnic *** An Alternative Cosmos The radical skepticism of Charles Fort’s “New Lands” Since the beginning of this blog, I’ve hoped to include occasional detours into the world of fringe writing—UFOs, cryptids, conspiracy theories—alongside the sci-fi a......more

Goodreads review by Herm on July 27, 2024

This just seems like padding to Book of the Damned with a little more focus on planets. I will still give Fort 3 stars for being the sassiest skeptic ever.......more

Goodreads review by Martin on March 08, 2022

The version I read isn't in the Goodreads database, I'll add it later. Interesting only as historical document. Written in the 1920's, Fort points out that astronomers have been getting a lot of things wrong, so maybe they have everything wrong. Certainly they and all scientists should be more humble......more

Goodreads review by Norman on May 22, 2015

I'm glad Fort doesn't really believe any of his theories"," because I certainly don't.The facts he's collected are interesting"," though.......more