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The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever
The Book of Immortality The Science Belief and Magic Behind Living Forever Author:Adam Leith Gollner The author of the critically acclaimed The Fruit Hunter?soon to be a documentary?weaves together religion, science, and mythology in a rich and fascinating exploration of the most universal of human obsessions: immortality.From vampires to the billion-dollar anti-aging industry, our culture is perennially fascinated with the concept of eternal l... more »ife. Now, Adam Gollner delves into a strange array of contemporary and historical characters and cults, religions and myths, and businesses all devoted to some form of immortality. Beginning at a futuristic costume party (the theme being the year 2068) thrown by a group of immortalists in California, his journey takes him to David Copperfield?s archipelago in the Bahamas, where Copperfield claims to have found the fountain of youth. Along the way Gollner visits St. Augustine, Florida, where Ponce de Leon died searching for said fountain; Harvard University, where he attends an anti-aging symposium; the Esalen Institute in California where he meets a medium, a priest, a rabbi, a magician, and a whole host of quirky characters who embody our obsession with escaping death. An incredible thinker with ?the talents of an investigative journalist, poet, travel writer, and humorist grafted onto one unusual specimen? (Mary Roach, The New York Times Book Review), Adam Gollner has written a provocative, rollicking, and revelatory examination of our age-old notion of living forever.« less