Ambrose Bierce is missing and other historical mysteries / Joe Nickell.

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Nickell, Joe [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813164144

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

D21 .A437 1992

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Contents:

Ancient riddles : the mystery of the Nazca lines -- Biographical enigmas : Ambrose Bierce is missing -- Hidden identity : unmasking a Nazi monster -- Fakelore : Swift's lost silver mine -- Questioned artifacts : D. Boone riddles -- Suspect documents : Lincoln's Bixby letter -- Lost texts : Cooke's "missing" edition -- Obscured sources : Hawthorne's "Veiled lady" -- Scientific challenges : pseudoscience and the Shroud -- Afterword : some lessons learned.

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Subject: What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another --

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Includes bibliographies and index.

What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another --

Introduction : history and the investigative approach -- Ancient riddles : the mystery of the Nazca lines -- Biographical enigmas : Ambrose Bierce is missing -- Hidden identity : unmasking a Nazi monster -- Fakelore : Swift's lost silver mine -- Questioned artifacts : D. Boone riddles -- Suspect documents : Lincoln's Bixby letter -- Lost texts : Cooke's "missing" edition -- Obscured sources : Hawthorne's "Veiled lady" -- Scientific challenges : pseudoscience and the Shroud -- Afterword : some lessons learned.

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