Colin Bennett

Looking for Orthon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On November 20, 1952, George Adamski first made contact with extraterrestrials¿including a long-haired youth from Venus named Orthon¿in the California desert. Or so he claimed. He offered photographic proof. He wrote books about his encounters, including the sensational bestseller Flying Saucers Have Landed. He never stopped advocating the truth of his claims even as he came under extraordinary ridicule. And in the process, however inadvertently, Adamski invented the modern mass counterculture. This new edition of Colin Bennett's modern classic posits, in the author's uniquely engaging style, Adamski as a kind of unwitting performance artist who "structured one of the most blatant acts of visionary cheek of the twentieth century," introducing the jittery postwar Western world to the image of the UFO, which confounded and tweaked authority while also fully embodying Cold War neuroses. Whether Adamski was telling the truth or not is almost...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781616405830
• Artikelnr.: 42014834

Autorenporträt

Colin Bennett is an internationally-recognized expert on ufology and extraterrestrial activity, and is the author of Politics of the Imagination, Looking for Orthon, and Flying Saucers over the White House. His recent publications include a comic novel, The Rumford Rogues (Headpress, England), contributions to Reality Uncovered (realityuncovered.net), and articles for the US-based UFO Magazine. Bennett currently resides in London where he continues to write and discover new interests.