Strange angel : The otherworldly life of rocket scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Pendle, George2005
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Total copies: 1
George Pendle tells Parson's extraordinary life story for the first time. A lonely misfit, born into a wealthy family, Parsons spent his childhood dreaming of space flight. Lacking a university education, but inspired by his science fiction 'pulps', Parsons became a crucial innovator during rocketry's birth. However, his visionary imagination also led him into the occult community thriving in 1930s Los Angeles, and when fantasy's pull became stronger than reality he lost both the work, and the wife, that he loved.
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Imprint:
Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005
Collation:
350p
ISBN:
0297848534
Dewey class:
621.4356
Language:
English
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BRN:
256326