{"product_id":"9781466838130","title":"Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e* Where did Sinbad Sail?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* Who Fired the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* The Boy Who Cried Werewolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* The Great Rough Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* Postscript on Prester John\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* The Secret of Hyperborea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real, the true…and the things that should be true\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREFACE BY PETER S. BEAGLE\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE BARR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a novel, not a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eAdventures in Unhistory \u003c\/i\u003eis a book of the fantastic--a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and--revealed at last--the Secret of Hyperborea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as \"one of the great short story writers of our times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic?  Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, \u003ci\u003ethese\u003c\/i\u003e facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, \u003ci\u003estyle--\u003c\/i\u003ethe late, great Avram Davidson's unique voice.  That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle's Preface to this volume, \"cries out to be read aloud.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124873380080,"sku":"9781466838130","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466838130_p0.jpg?v=1763685707","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466838130","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}