Tag: Rudyard Kipling
William Hope Hodgson's Journey at the End of the Night
On April 19, 1918, William Hope Hodgson was hit by a shell on the Belgian front and prematurely left this world. We want to remember it like this, speaking of the new publication of Palindrome types,β¦
The "Great Game" by Jacques Bergier
"Lover of the Unusual and Scribe of Miracles" (as his visiting card stated), co-author with Louis Pauwels of the cult book "The morning of the wizards", explorer of infinite spaces, cosmonaut of inner space, scientist, agent secret, visionary, alchemist: all the faces of Jacques Bergier in his autobiography, "I'm not a legend", just published in Italian by Bietti publisher.
Dying like a god: the strange case of Captain Cook
In the XNUMXs, the ritual murder of Captain James Cook by the native Hawaiians was at the center of a "postmodernist" controversy between a Sri Lankan sociologist, Gananath Obeyesekere, and the emeritus US professor Marshall Sahlins, a famous anthropologist of the Pacific and Stone Age.
