The Sun and the moon the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York
A study of a nineteenth-century journalistic hoax describes how a series of articles appearing in the "New York Sun" in 1835 purported to reveal lunar discoveries made by a noted British astronomer concerning life on the moon
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Basic Books
2008
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A study of a nineteenth-century journalistic hoax describes how a series of articles appearing in the "New York Sun" in 1835 purported to reveal lunar discoveries made by a noted British astronomer concerning life on the moon A study of a nineteenth-century journalistic hoax describes how a series of articles appearing in the "New York Sun" in 1835 purported to reveal lunar discoveries made by a noted British astronomer concerning life on the moon |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-334) and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 350 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780465002573 978-0-465-00257-3 0465002579 0-465-00257-9 |