Arthur C. Clarke's Mysteries

  • Hardcover
  • Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998
By Fairley, John; Simon Welfare
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998. First edition in this format. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 256pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black paper over boards, with only gentle bumping to the spine ends. In a dust jacket, with rubbing to the rear panel. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.

A book which confronts the following issues:

Is it possible that there are monsters in the ocean?

Do certain people have the apparently effortless ability to endure intense pain?

Is time travel possible?

Could the Parthians have invented the first battery in 240 B.C.E.?

Can you will someone to die?

How did the ancient South Americans draw massive land pictures that can only be viewed from a great height?

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