The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax

by Michael Keevak

In the summer of 1703, George Psalmanazar traveled to London posing as an East Asian native from Formosa - now modern Taiwan. In the following year, Psalmanazar published a book about his native... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081433198X
• ISBN13: 9780814331989
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"