Strange Mysteries from Around the World - Hardcover

Simon, Seymour

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9780688146368: Strange Mysteries from Around the World

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ISBN 10: 0688146368 ISBN 13: 9780688146368

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1997

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Describes nine strange true mysteries and explains how such phenomena may have occurred, from the incidence of frogs and fish falling with the rain from the sky to the eerie events surrounding a crystal skull.

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About the Author:

Seymour Simon is the author of over one hundred science books for children. His many award-winning books include Icebergs and Glaciers, a New York Academy of Sciences Children's Book Award winner, as well as Storms, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Mountains, and many books about the solar system. Mr. Simon is the recipient of the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for Nonfiction for the body of his work. He lives in Great Neck, New York.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6. A revision of a 1980 title (Four Winds; o.p.). Eleven puzzling events or unusual objects not yet explained by scientists or investigators are described. Chapters on rains of frogs and fish, the amazing destruction caused by the Siberian "big bang" of 1908, the strangely abandoned ghost ship Mary Celeste, a haunting crystal skull from Belize, and unexplainable loud booms around the world remain basically the same, with minor update or rearrangement of paragraphs. The areas of most significant change from the earlier edition are the inclusion of possible explanations for fire walkers' abilities, continuing efforts to find the legendary treasure of Oak Island near Nova Scotia, and results of recent investigations into Kirlian photography. A new chapter, "Lights in the Night," offers an extended discussion of UFOs. The chapter on the origins of the "Shroud of Turin" has been left out in light of recent scientific studies. Black-and-white photographs in both books are similar or identical. Simon's enticingly simple and clear descriptions make the subjects accessible with no unsubstantiated speculations. Worn-out copies of the 1980 edition can be safely replaced with this updated version. The mysteries it describes are as intriguing now as they were when they first became mysteries.?Ann G. Brouse, Big Flats Branch Library, NY
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