Monday, November 5, 2007

Staff Recommendation - An Adventure

Ten new November reviews have shown up on BookGuide's Staff Recommendations page. Click that link, or wait to see them here on the BookGuide blog over the course of the month!

An Adventure
by Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly [133.12 M71a]

Many years ago, I saw a film called Miss Morison's Ghosts starring Dame Wendy Hiller and Hannah Gordon. This film is a haunting tale of two well-educated English women who experience a time-travel journey into the French court of Marie Antoinette while on a visit to Versailles. We are very fortunate to own a copy of the book that this film was based on: An Adventure by Miss Moberly. This book describes with incredible detail the experiences that Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain had on several visits to Versailles in the early part of the twentieth century. Not believing what they had actually experienced, the scholars use scientific research to try to determine what happened to them in the gardens of Paris. Complete with maps, research, and first-person accounts of the events, this book is a wonderful example of paranormal activity in Europe during the turn of the century. -- reviewed by Kim J. - Reference - Bennett Martin Public Library

[ Internet Movie Database entry for Miss Morrison's Ghosts]

Have you read this one? What did you think?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If you've seen the movie, be forewarned: the book is less likely than the movie to leave you convinced that something paranormal actually happened to these women.