Strange World [Paperback]

Frank Edwards (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1964

This carefully authenticated compendium of strange, true events--so fantastic they baffle even the most brilliant mind--proves that we live in circumstances frequently beyond rational understanding or scientific explanation. Strange World has sold more than one million copies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 289 pages
• Publisher: Citadel Pr (June 1964)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806509783
• ISBN-13: 978-0806509785
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #849,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The primer for paranormal research, June 11, 1997

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This review is from: Strange World (Paperback)

No other single book in print will give the beginning paranormal researcher a better overall view of the field. Also can be an eye opener for the experienced hand who has only read the "specialty" titles of recent years. The companion titles "Stranger than Science" and "Strangest of All" will complete a thorough overview of the subject

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The original X-Files, November 14, 2007

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Randall K. Stamm "RandWulf" (Springfield, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strange World (Paperback)

The work of Frank Edwards sets the stage as the original X-Files -- i.e., investigating amazing, fascinating information and reports of the paranormal and the otherworldly. He was a truly fascinating man and a friend of the family who would come over to the house for dinner with my parents. I was very young, but I still remember him, and I still have a paperback book collection of amateur magic tricks he brought me once. I cannot recommend his books too highly - I read them over and over when I was young, and I still go back to them today.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tangled webs of pseudo-science where small grains are expanded into factual mountains, August 26, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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Innuendo and partial discussion are the strategy of the pseudo-scientist, and no one has been better at it than Frank Edwards. I am well aware that there are many unknown wonders in the world that science has as yet failed to discover and if it has been discovered, has yet to explain it. Therefore, there are things that are unknown and some of them are no doubt quite bizarre.
With this background, there is a grain of truth in much of what Edwards reports in this book. However, in nearly all cases, there is only a grain and once that grain is exceeded, he enters the area of absurdity. Now that Internet search engines such as Google exist, it is relatively easy to debunk much of what Edwards writes.
I read this book with fascination in my youth and was astounded. However, when my curiosity led me to further investigation, it became clear very quickly that the contents of this book were dramatic conclusions based on simplistic reasoning from weak initial premises. To see that simple read the blurb on the back cover

The sensational book that reveals the unbelievable!
Terrifying events that have baffled the most brilliant scientific minds!