Author:Mike Dash
The definitive exploration of the unknown and paranormal. BORDERLANDS contains hundreds of personal accounts of strange phenomena ranging from surviving mammoths in Siberia to intelligent clouds over New Zealand, from frozen frogs to plagues of murderous manhole covers. It also examines how and why these stories are reported and what they mean. The book sets out the scientific and psychological explanations for these phenomena, while remaining accessible to the casual reader. BORDERLANDS is the first complete critical survey of an extraordinary fast developing field.
Breathtaking. . . On every page of Life and How to Survive It you will find insights that will cut straight to the heart of your own life
—— Daily MailHutchinson means what he says about demystifying his subject - by the biography's end there's not a stone left unturned
—— The ScotsmanA level-headed reappraisal of a man whose fantasies were fuelled as much by self-publicity as by any real demonic contact
Well informed and cool-headed . . . one can see that Crowley's own words would be of little use in conveying the facts of his life, which Hutchinson does admirably
—— New York Times