The Formosa Fraud. The Story of George Psalmanazar One of the Greatest Charlatans in Literary History

by Graham Earnshaw

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Hong Kong. Earnshaw Books. 2017. Stock ID #214854 Black and white illustrations, x + 251pp, bibliography. Paperback. New. More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born there. He made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that made his

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