The False Formosan

The False Formosan
Author: Richard M. Swiderski
Publisher: Mellen University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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This is reconsideration of the Assyrian Christian scholar and confidence man George Psalmanazar who dazzled 18th-century London in the disguise of a Chinese savant. Swiderski explores the fabulism and credulity of the time as well as analyzing the scientific curiosity aroused by Psalmanazar's writings.