Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons - Rilegato

Pendle, George

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ISBN 10: 015100997X ISBN 13: 9780151009978

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Riassunto

Brilliant Rocket Scientist Killed in Explosion screamed the front-page headline of the Los Angeles Times on June 18, 1952. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer whose work had helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was at first mourned as a tragically young victim of mishandled chemicals. But as reporters dug deeper a shocking story emerged-Parsons had been performing occult rites and summoning spirits as a follower of Aleister Crowley-and he was promptly written off as an embarrassment to science.

George Pendle tells Parsons's extraordinary life story for the first time. Fueled from childhood by dreams of space flight, Parsons was a crucial innovator during rocketry's birth. But his visionary imagination also led him into the occult community thriving in 1930s Los Angeles, and when fantasy's pull became stronger than reality, he lost both his work and his wife. Parsons was just emerging from his personal underworld when he died at age thirty-seven. In Strange Angel, Pendle recovers a fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences of genius.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

George Pendle writes about science for the Times (London) and the Financial Times, among other publications. He lives in New York City.

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Book by Pendle George

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 015100997X
• ISBN 13: 9780151009978
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 350