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The Curse of the Voynich: The Secret History of the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript Paperback – 1 Oct. 2006

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  • Paperback : 230 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 0955316006
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0955316005
  • Publisher : Compelling Press (1 Oct. 2006)
  • Dimensions : 15.6 x 1.3 x 23.4 cm
  • Language: : English
  • Customer reviews:
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Synopsis

Once upon a time, a brilliant (but disillusioned) Renaissance architect saw his chance to start a fabulous new life in the East. But he faced a problem: how could he carry his lifelong collection of secrets through a war-zone without being arrested as a spy? How indeed...Five centuries later, in a university library sits a strange book - one whose cipher-like words and bizarre pictures no-one can read or understand. This, the enigmatic "Voynich Manuscript", is a siren whose intricate song has long been a call to adventure: yet all who try to master her end up lost, their boats smashed by hidden rocks and whirlpools. It is as if her dark secrets are protected by a curse - you might call it the "Curse of the Voynich". Perhaps, fearful, we should turn back here while we still have a chance: but one question keeps haunting our thoughts...What if the manuscript and the architect were somehow interlinked? In fact...what if their stories were two sides of the same coin? Leading Voynich researcher, Nick Pelling now tells these two compelling stories, linking and joining them together in a rich historical tapestry to reveal their very surprising shared secret history.

What emerges in his book "The Curse of the Voynich" is truly stranger than fiction - a gripping real-life tale of power and poison, of invention and intrigue...and of ciphers and secrets.

From the Publisher

While non-fiction is rarely both entertaining and powerfully
informative, "The Curse of the Voynich" rewrites the publishing rule-book
by ticking both of these challenging boxes.

On the one hand, it draws out many different strands of history and weaves
them into a narrative tapestry, to tell the story of one exceptional man's
journey against the tide of history - and how a Renaissance Cold War
brought "the world's most mysterious manuscript" into being.

On the other hand, readers with an interest in secret history will enjoy
being taken behind the scenes in early Renaissance Italy, to see power &
intrigue in action - and to glimpse the furtive world of early inventors,
at the time when many of the technologies we now take for granted were
first conceived and built.

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