Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life Of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Author: George Pendle
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: $38.95 AUD
: 9780156031790
: Harvest Books
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: February 2006
: 203mm X 133mm X 21mm
: United States
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: George Pendle
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Description
After his untimely death in 1952, maverick rocketeer John Parsons was revealed to have been a follower of occultist Aleister Crowley and was promptly written off as an embarrassment to science. Here, Pendle recovers a fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences of genius.