New Lands, published in 1925, was Charles Fort's second nonfiction book. Dealing mainly with astronomy, it is now regarded as his worst book, and many of his ideas have dated badly. It does, however, introduce one of his best known ideas: the Super-Sargasso Sea, an otherwordly depository of mysteriously appearing and disappearing objects.
Chapters[]
Fort did not title his chapters; the following list is a synopsis of chapter contents:
- By way of an introduction.
- Neptune; the asteroids
- Periodicity
- Algol and Sirius
- Transits of Venus - errors
- On finding what you want to find
- Spectroscopy; Saturn
- Speed of light; astronomical distances
- Triangulation
- Kepler and Newton
- Stellar companions; disappearing and changing stars; the leonids
- Theorising
- A list of assorted anomalous events, including sky sounds
- Lights on the Moon; lights on other planets.
- Sky sounds; explosions in the sky; seed rains
- Crossings of the Sun
- Crossings of the Sun and Moon
- People in the sky; Mirages of cities
- Lights in the sky
- Lights on the moon; objects on the Moon
- Mars, Mercury and Venus
- Explosions and gunshots in the sky; Essex earthquake
- During eclipses of the moon
- Baltic mirages; object seen during eclipse; Falling rocks of Servia; earthquakes of Reading
- Regular lights in the sky
- Moving lights in the sky
- People in the sky; lightning from a clear sky
- Lights on Mars; things on the moon; venus; mystery airships
- Detonations
- Flying and falling objects
- Lightning; sheep scares; ghost moons and mirages; mirage of Bristol;
- Venus; L'Astre Cherbourg; Reading
- Meteor crater, Arizona
- Mars; more lights and earthquakes; Reading
- British airship; Canadian objects
- Mystery shots; more airships; Moon things; disappearing aeroplane; Reading; quakes
- Theorising
- Falling rocks of Chico; falls of organic matter.