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Re: Is this true?
Posted by:
kurt
()
Date: December 13, 2005 03:32AM
OK Micheal, you got me on this one.
After going home and pulling Radier's of the Deep off the shelf, there is this disclaimer in the introduction:
"His journalistic instinct for the exciting led him to enhance and mildly embellish these tales.....Although professional historians would immediately warn their audience against the pitfalls involved in uncritically accepting these accounts as genuine, Thomas did not greatly concern himself with the need for critical evaluation"
Should have double checked - after thinking a bit about it on the way home today Lowell Thomas is not the most serious source anyway...
However, the book is, if not perfectly accurate, a fun read....
Thanks for the catch...
Kurt
(Pity, it is a fun story....)
After going home and pulling Radier's of the Deep off the shelf, there is this disclaimer in the introduction:
"His journalistic instinct for the exciting led him to enhance and mildly embellish these tales.....Although professional historians would immediately warn their audience against the pitfalls involved in uncritically accepting these accounts as genuine, Thomas did not greatly concern himself with the need for critical evaluation"
Should have double checked - after thinking a bit about it on the way home today Lowell Thomas is not the most serious source anyway...
However, the book is, if not perfectly accurate, a fun read....
Thanks for the catch...
Kurt
(Pity, it is a fun story....)
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Re: Is this true? | herbert gratz | 12/12/2005 01:45PM |
Re: Is this true? | Rainer Kolbicz | 12/12/2005 05:27PM |
Re: Is this true? | Hubertus | 12/12/2005 02:06PM |
Re: I doubt it | KJK | 12/11/2005 03:14PM |
Re: Is this true? | kurt | 12/12/2005 08:11PM |
Re: Is this true? | ROBERT M. | 12/13/2005 03:27AM |
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Re: Robert M. | J.T. McDaniel | 12/18/2005 02:01AM |
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Re: Is this true? | ROBERT M. | 12/25/2005 02:58AM |
Re: Is this true? | Michael Lowrey | 12/12/2005 10:24PM |
Re: Is this true? | kurt | 12/13/2005 03:32AM |
Re: Is this true? | parmstrong | 12/13/2005 08:23PM |
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Re: Is this true? | Vince | 12/13/2005 01:20AM |
Re: Is this true? | Michael Lowrey | 12/13/2005 01:43AM |
Re: Is this true? | herbert gratz | 12/13/2005 10:23AM |
Re: Is this true? | Michael Lowrey | 12/13/2005 03:04PM |
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