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Ambrose Bierce is Missing : And Other Historical Mysteries /
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 -- or vice versa. In this wide- ranging study of historical investigation, former detective Joe Nickell allows the reader to l...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
1992.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 -- or vice versa. In this wide- ranging study of historical investigation, former detective Joe Nickell allows the reader to look over his shoulder as he demonstrates the use of varied techniques in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. | ||
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