<![CDATA[Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends]]>

false <![CDATA[Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172685882m/207211.jpg 207211 3 * Where did Sinbad Sail? * Who Fired the Phoenix? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Great Rough Beast * Postscript on Prester John * The Secret of Hyperborea * What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real, the true…and the things that should be true PREFACE BY PETER S. BEAGLE ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE BARR “Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like.” Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic--a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and--revealed at last--the Secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as “one of the great short story writers of our times.” Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style--the late, great Avram Davidson’s unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle’s Preface to this volume, “cries out to be read aloud.&#8221 1171092 1993 Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends total:36|5:15|4:10|3:8|2:3|1:0| 36 145 98 6 4 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 15:46:51 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 15:49:24 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 07:38:41 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 24 08:12:44 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 23 11:40:29 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 24 16:22:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 21 11:24:46 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 16 10:01:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 26 19:09:52 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 19:09:52 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 20 10:00:15 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 30 19:21:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 24 20:40:29 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 20:40:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 20 18:48:16 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 18:48:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 04:34:35 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 04:34:38 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 23 19:58:19 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 19:25:27 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 19:58:19 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Nov 04 21:21:22 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 21:21:22 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 11:22:10 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:22:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 27 15:21:45 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 15:21:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Sep 26 12:04:36 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 12:04:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 01 11:07:20 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 11:07:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Aug 26 18:58:25 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 18:58:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 02 15:26:45 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 13:12:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 24 09:12:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 09:27:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 20 23:09:31 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 23:09:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 17 21:23:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 21:23:14 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=207211