He travelled through the western United States, Scotland, and England, until becoming ill in Southern Africa. Īt age 18, Fort left New York to embark on a world tour to "put some capital in the bank of experience". An autodidact, his considerable knowledge of the world was due mainly to his extensive personal reading. Although Fort was described as curious and intelligent, he was not a good student.
Fort developed a strong sense of independence during his early years.Īs a young adult, Fort wanted to be a naturalist, collecting sea shells, minerals, and birds. Fort's biographer, Damon Knight, suggested that his distrust of authority began in his treatment as a child. His father, a grocer, was an authoritarian, and in his unpublished autobiography Many Parts, Fort mentions the physical abuse he endured from his father. Complete with a full subject index, here is the definitive Fort anthology for our times.Fort was born in Albany, New York, in 1874, of Dutch ancestry. To me he is simply stupendous.”Now, Fort’s classic investigations are newly collected with a preface by biographer Jim Steinmeyer.
Teleportation (a term Fort invented).These are the works that moved novelist Theodore Dreiser to write: “To me no one in the world has suggested the underlying depths and mysteries and possibilities as has Fort. Mysterious airships in an age before flight. These are cult hero Charles Fort’s defining records of bizarre, haunting, strange, and inexplicable “facts” for which science cannot account: Frogs falling from the skies. It features Fort’s complete, unabridged text and a subject index.Here are the four books that invented our understanding of the paranormal. Synopsis: This Encyclopedia Forteana anthologizes the cult hero’s four classic works on the strange, the unexplained, and the just plain weird: The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands. The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort
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