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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781780288468
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2018
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Description:
The essential guidebook to the mind-expanding experiences and discoveries of the 20th Century.
International Bestseller- The essential guidebook to the history of magic and occultism-"the most interesting, informative, and thought-provoking book on the occult " (The Sunday Telegraph)
Colin Wilson's great classic work is a comprehensive history of mystery and magic. His genius lies in producing a skillful synthesis of the available material; clarifying without simplifying, seeing the occult in the light of reason and reason in the light of the mystical and paranormal. It is a journey of enlightenment-a wide-ranging survey of the whole subject and an insightful exploration of Man's latent powers.
Republished two years after the author's death, and with a new foreword by bibliographer Colin Stanley, Wilson brings his own refreshingly optimistic and stimulating interpretation to the worlds of the paranormal, the occult, and the supernatural.
ISBN: 9781780288468
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2018
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Description:
The essential guidebook to the mind-expanding experiences and discoveries of the 20th Century.
International Bestseller- The essential guidebook to the history of magic and occultism-"the most interesting, informative, and thought-provoking book on the occult " (The Sunday Telegraph)
Colin Wilson's great classic work is a comprehensive history of mystery and magic. His genius lies in producing a skillful synthesis of the available material; clarifying without simplifying, seeing the occult in the light of reason and reason in the light of the mystical and paranormal. It is a journey of enlightenment-a wide-ranging survey of the whole subject and an insightful exploration of Man's latent powers.
Republished two years after the author's death, and with a new foreword by bibliographer Colin Stanley, Wilson brings his own refreshingly optimistic and stimulating interpretation to the worlds of the paranormal, the occult, and the supernatural.