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Richard Sugg Livres

    Cet auteur plonge dans les royaumes sombres et fascinants des créatures mythiques et du surnaturel, en utilisant des recherches rigoureuses et un style de prose captivant. Ses œuvres explorent l'histoire et la culture, découvrant des récits cachés et remettant en question notre compréhension du monde. Examinant souvent les frontières entre le réel et le mythique, l'auteur invite les lecteurs dans un voyage dans les coins moins fréquentés de l'imagination humaine. Ses projets actuels promettent d'éclairer davantage les aspects étranges et captivants de notre existence.

    Harvest of a Golden Sky
    The Real Vampires
    Fairies
    Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires

    • Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires

      The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians

      • 444pages
      • 16 heures de lecture
      4,1(10)Évaluer

      Exploring the intriguing practice of corpse medicine, this book reveals how historical figures from various social classes used human remains to treat ailments ranging from epilepsy to cancer. Richard Sugg delves into a largely overlooked aspect of medical history, demonstrating that this phenomenon peaked during the early-modern period in Britain, challenging the notion that it was merely a medieval practice. Enhanced by a companion website, it serves as a crucial resource for those studying the history of medicine and early modern society.

      Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires

    • Fairies

      • 280pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      4,0(13)Évaluer

      Ranging widely through history, myth, literature and art, this new account of the fairy shows the terror lurking behind Tinkerbell.

      Fairies

    • The Real Vampires

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      3,6(12)Évaluer

      Respected scholar Richard Sugg reveals the true history of vampires, exploring their cultural origins in a globetrotting tale of superstition, horror and strangeness. Sugg makes seemingly bizarre beliefs, practices and incidents comprehensible by showing in detail how vampires arose from a world of everyday magic.

      The Real Vampires

    • Harvest of a Golden Sky

      Successful commercial pilot, Kirsten Davies has just fulfilled a lifelong dream of flying a World-War II P51-D 'Mustang' fighter. Sadly her perfect week flying from an Arizona Desert Airfield is cut short by a freak accident, which leads her convalescing in California.

      Harvest of a Golden Sky