Description: Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies (Hardcover – Illustrated, 2018) by Ian Tattersall & Peter Névraumont ABOUT THE BOOK World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Néaumont to tell this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered"; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world in 2800 BC and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance.
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Book Title: Hoax: a History of Deception : 5000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Running Press
Topic: Hoaxes & Deceptions, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology, General, Curiosities & Wonders
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2018
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Référence, True Crime, Fiction, Social Science, Psychology, History
Item Weight: 32.7 Oz
Author: Ian Tattersall, Peter Névraumont
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 7.8 in
Format: Hardcover
