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New Lands is a book by Charles Hoy Fort, first published in 1925, continuing his study of “anomalous phenomena”, with this work mainly focusing on “astronomical anomalies”. This is the second of Fort’s four books, preceded by The Book of the Damned (1919), followed by Lo! (1931) and Wild Talents (1932).
The Index page on Sacred Texts website gives a good summary of this book:
The focus of this book, the second which Fort published, is to tweak the nose of the mainstream astronomers. Fort’s slightly tongue-in-cheek hypothesis is that the Earth is located in a fixed location, and that there are invisible lands in the sky just beyond the atmosphere.
He spends much of the first part of the book illustrating a number of embarrassing mistakes in celestial mechanics, and attempting to poke holes in the technique of parallax. Then he pulls together examples of falls of stones, gelatinous substances, anomalous earthquakes, fireballs, which occurred in the same location at the same time, notably in an area which he calls the ‘London triangle.’ Fort concludes that these manifestations are due to contiguous ‘lands in the sky’ which maintain a fixed location over the earth.
The book can be read on Sacred Texts website or the hypertext edition on Fortean Web Site of Mr. X.