The Secret History of the World - Softcover

Booth, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590201620 ISBN 13: 9781590201626

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2010

Synopsis

They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history--or what we come to know as history--has been written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? In this groundbreaking and now famous work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous premise--that everything we've known about our world's past is corrupted, and that the stories put forward by the various cults and mystery schools throughout history are true--Booth produces nothing short of an alternate history of the past 3,000 years. From Greek and Egyptian mythology to Jewish folklore, from Christian cults to Freemasons, from Charlemagne to Don Quixote, from George Washington to Hitler--Booth shows that history needs a revolutionary rethink, and he has 3,000 years of hidden wisdom to back it up.

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Praise for "The Secret History of the World"

"An entire library's worth of scholarship [in] a single volume."
?"San Francisco Gate"

"Authentically mind-boggling."
?"Kirkus"

"Booth's history incorporates so many disparate philosophies. . . His universe is full of bizarre theories, entertaining primarily for their weirdness."
?"Publishers Weekly"
Praise for "The Secret History of the World"
"An entire library's worth of scholarship [in] a single volume."
?"San Francisco Gate"
"Authentically mind-boggling."
?"Kirkus"
"Booth's history incorporates so many disparate philosophies. . . His universe is full of bizarre theories, entertaining primarily for their weirdness."
?"Publishers Weekly"

From the Publisher:

Review for Secret History of the World:
The powerful narrative drive and cornucopia of startling revelations that form the core of Jonathan Black's new book show us the world not as we have been taught to see it but as it really is - deeply strange and mysterious, filled with secrets and codes, with humanity rightly placed at the heart of a grand cosmic riddle. Nothing of this scale and ambition has been attempted since Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine, and Black rises to the challenge with style, originality and aplomb - Graham Hancock, author Fingerprints of the Gods

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1590201620
• ISBN 13: 9781590201626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608