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Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publisher
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From sacred relics, to financial schemes, to fake art, music, and identities, world history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Névraumont to create this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered";...
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