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- Title
- Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John ...
- ISBN
- 0297848534
- EAN
- 9780297848530
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 2005-07-14
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John ...
- Artist
- Pendle, George
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- Book Title
- Strange Angel: the Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 242 mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Engineering & Technology
- Item Weight
- 724 g
- Item Width
- 164 mm
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Product Information
BRILLIANT ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN EXPLOSION screamed the front-page headline of the Los Angeles Times on 18 June 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 Alesteir Crowley, and he was promptly written off as an embarrassment to science. George Pendle tells Parsons' extraordinary life story for the first time. Fuelled 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 - aged thirty-seven. In Strange Angel, Pendle recovers a fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences of genius.
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Publisher
Orion Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780297848530
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12046541189
Product Key Features
Book Title
Strange Angel: the Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Engineering & Technology
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
242 mm
Item Weight
724 g
Item Width
164 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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