The Formosa Fraud. The Story of George Psalmanazar One of the Greatest Charlatans in Literary History.
de EARNSHAW, GRAHAM
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Hong Kong.: Earnshaw Books.. 2017.. Black and white illustrations, x + 251pp, bibliography. Paperback. New. "More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born there.
He made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that made his book, A Description of Formosa, a publishing sensation in London in 1704. Even the Bishop of London swallowed Psalmanazar's story and invited him to teach his (fake) Formosan language at Oxford University.
The Formosa fantasy world he created, including elephants and camels, gold mines and outlandish religious sacrificial ceremonies, almost rivals Tolkein's Middle Earth, with the crucial difference that many people believed it to be real.
This is the story of one of the great frauds in literary history." (Publisher's description). .
He made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that made his book, A Description of Formosa, a publishing sensation in London in 1704. Even the Bishop of London swallowed Psalmanazar's story and invited him to teach his (fake) Formosan language at Oxford University.
The Formosa fantasy world he created, including elephants and camels, gold mines and outlandish religious sacrificial ceremonies, almost rivals Tolkein's Middle Earth, with the crucial difference that many people believed it to be real.
This is the story of one of the great frauds in literary history." (Publisher's description). .
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- Título
- The Formosa Fraud. The Story of George Psalmanazar One of the Greatest Charlatans in Literary History.
- Autor
- EARNSHAW, GRAHAM
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 988842212X
- ISBN 13
- 9789888422128
- Editorial
- Earnshaw Books.
- Lugar de publicación
- Hong Kong.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2017.
- Palabras clave
- China, East Asia, Europe, Taiwan, zz_Gallery_NewBooks
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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