The Hole Truth

From: The Village Voice | Date: July 5, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Hollow Earth

By David Standish Da Capo, 224 pp.

$24.95

The Hole Truth

Core beliefs: Don't know much about geography

Hollow-earth notions have worn a tinfoil hat for so long that it's easy to forget what a curious and distinguished lineage they have. While David Standish's Hollow Earth is, as he puts it, "the cultural history of an idea that was wrong and changed nothing," his book basks in the lurid glow of a theory whose hypnotic appeal will long outlive its rational plausibility. Popularized by Edmond Halley in 1692 to explain the earth's magnetic anomalies, the concept was revived in 1820s ...

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