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Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies

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Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies - Tattersall, Ian, and Névraumont, Peter
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"World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall ... has teamed up with Peter N???evraumont 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'; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Pie is the forefather of fake news; and the first ...

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Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies 2018, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780316503723

Hardcover