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Pros
The hardcover with metallic copper design is lovely! It really is a perfect coffee table book! I found this book super awesome and i definitely recommend! The book is great! It reminds me of days when i would spend hours looking at national geographic... Read More
The way it is written seems to read more like a textbook to me and it makes sense, it is basically a textbook on the occult. The book also has a four-page glossary and an extensive index to help you find just the piece of information that you want to ... Read More
Paper-stock is thick and semi-glossy. Beautiful illustrations. Amazingly illustrated, as all good d.
Cons
The book is historically inaccurate and extremely biased. The text of the volume is barely there-- it is mostly a picture book with some long captions masquerading as content. It's a nice compendium of images with some informative captions, but mostly... Read More
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Quality
It's a quality book with very nice pictures that covered a lot of topics.
There’s some great art and photography, and it’s a great starting point to help you figure out what you’d like to read about in... Read More
The binding is standard modern trade paperback binding with middling to average shelf life possible.
I do wish some parts had a little bit more info, but the pictures and diagrams are otherwise delightful and a wonder to look at.
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- This product had a total of 1,827 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 16 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It gives you a good overview without going into too much detail that would make it boring or harder to read like a lot of these history book are
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Its the pictures though that made this book
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The binding is standard modern trade paperback binding with middling to average shelf life possible
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A hardcover would last longer
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Most subjects get 23 pages so there isn’t a lot of depth given to each subject — but it does start in prehistoric times and ends in the present day and touches on magical occult or spiritual traditions from all over the world so the author had to stick to just the basics
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Sometimes the overlap in colonialized cultures is evident and in others seems less so but that may be due to the whitewashing of global history rather than a lack of symbiotic influence
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I often wonder why they would have put their trust in the priests and shamans if the magic didnt really work
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