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New Lands

by Charles Fort & Booth Tarkington (Author)

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  • 20th century
  • Language: English
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New Lands is a book by Charles Fort, first published in 1923, that collects his provocative examinations of astronomical anomalies and challenges to mainstream scientific assumptions. Fort assembles strange reports — from mysterious mirages of islands and continents in the sky to puzzling meteorological and celestial oddities — and uses them to ridicule scientific complacency and to suggest alternative ways of reading the evidence. The book continues the author’s trademark mix of sceptical wit and imaginative speculation, expanding ideas such as his Super-Sargasso Sea and a world that routinely yields surprising, unexplained phenomena. Though sometimes dismissed as eccentric, New Lands is a key work for readers interested in Fortean literature, anomalous phenomena, and the history of the paranormal. It sits alongside Fort’s other major works as an early, influential challenge to the culture of scientific certainty; writers and investigators in cryptozoology, anomalistics, and speculative nonfiction have long mined its pages. For those seeking a curious, iconoclastic voice that questions orthodox astronomy and celebrates the strange, New Lands remains an essential, thought-provoking read.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Cryptozoology and Forteana, Parapsychology and psychical research, and UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from global-grey matched “Paranormal and Mysteries”. Retained metadata contains “Paranormal and Mysteries” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Paranormal and Mysteries”· in subject
  • UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and project-gutenberg matched “Unidentified flying objects” and “unidentified flying objects”. Retained metadata contains “Unidentified flying objects” in the subject metadata.

    • “Unidentified flying objects”· via Open Library
    • “unidentified flying objects”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Unidentified flying objects”· in subject
  • Cryptozoology and Forteana

    Retained metadata contains “Cryptozoology” in the description, “fortean” in the description, and “Curiosities and wonders” in the subject metadata.

    • “Cryptozoology”· in description
    • “fortean”· in description
    • “Curiosities and wonders”· in subject

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1923Boni & LiverightEnglish—Public

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2026-03-24Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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