The Shattering of the Great Planets Hesperus and Phaethon: and the Ensuing Destructions and Floods on Earth - Paperback

by Anne-Marie De Grazia (Translator), Johann Gottlieb Radlof (Author)

In this erudite book first published in Berlin in 1823, one of the great philologists of the XIX century sets out to investigate the memory of ancient catastrophes and environmental changes which he suspects to inform humanity's most sacred myths.

Author Biography

German philologist, born in Merseburg in 1775, died in 1826.