Prophecies: 4,000 Years of Prophets, Visionaries and Predictions

Prophecies: 4,000 Years of Prophets, Visionaries and Predictions

by Tony Allan
Prophecies: 4,000 Years of Prophets, Visionaries and Predictions

Prophecies: 4,000 Years of Prophets, Visionaries and Predictions

by Tony Allan

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Overview

Discover how accurate past visions of the future have turned out to be and explore the continuity of the prophetic tradition. This is a fascinating anthology of amazing and curious stories - such as clairvoyant dreams about the sinking of the Titanic and the Reichstaag Fire in Berlin. It includes features on ancient shamans and soothsayers, Egyptian dream analysis, Greek oracles and Roman auguries, the ancient roots of astrology, messianic visionaries, medieval seers, African systems of divination, Aztec prophecies of cataclysms, the mysteries of Pachacamac, Nostradamus and his "Centuries" and the futurism of H. G. Wells.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780283401
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 01/01/2012
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 356 KB

About the Author

Tony Allan studied history at Oxford and was for many years a writer and editor with Time-Life Books, serving as Series Editor of the Time-Life History of the World, and working as an author and consultant on Myth and Mankind, a 20-volume study of comparative mythology.
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