Madame Blavatsky's baboon : a history of the mystics, mediums, and misfits who brought spiritualism...
Madame Blavatsky's baboon : a history of the mystics, mediums, and misfits who brought spiritualism...
Madame Blavatsky's baboon : a history of the mystics, mediums, and misfits who brought spiritualism to America / Peter Washington.
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Publisher
New York : Schocken Books, c1995.
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T0381983
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Language
English
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Physical content
470 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Schocken Books, c1995.
Edition
1st American ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1995.
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Summary
These gurus and the alternative religions they founded had a powerful appeal particularly for women, who found in them a role denied them by conventional religions. They also attracted some of the most influential intellects of the age - Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Lloyd Wright, Katherine Mansfield, Aldous Huxley, and Chris...
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Madame Blavatsky's baboon : a history of the mystics, mediums, and misfits who brought spiritualism to America / Peter Washington.
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Originally published: London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-449) and index.
Transferred from N299.93409/ 1.
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c1995.
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T0381983
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74VvZBO6Vgxb
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ISBN
0805241256
9780805210248 (pbk.)
0805210245 (pbk.)
9780805241259 :
0805241256 :
9780805241259
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299.93409
MMS ID
991004763089702626
