Background
He was born in Clapham, south London, during World World War II and some of his earliest memories are of the Blitz.
( For the last 500 years the predictions of sixteenth-cen...)
For the last 500 years the predictions of sixteenth-century physician and prophet Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, have been endlessly interpreted. Scholars and skeptics have hotly debated whether the 946 "quatrains" he wrote foretold everything from the discovery of electricity to the birth of Adolph Hitler, the death of Princess Diana and the attack on the World Trade Center. But while much has been written about Nostradamus's predictions and their validity, little is known of the man. This definitive biography by bestselling historian Ian Wilson reveals the man behind the legend for the first time. Tracing Nostradamus's life from his early years to his skillful treatment of Black Plague sufferers, his flight from agents of the Spanish Inquisition, and his career as an advisor to the king of France, Nostradamus separates fact from fiction and reveals a complex figure who, whether or not he could see future events, was indelibly marked by those of his own time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312317905/?tag=2022091-20
(Rewritten and updated from Ian Wilson's original 1978 bes...)
Rewritten and updated from Ian Wilson's original 1978 bestseller, The Turin Shroud. Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brand-new historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary photographic imprint, is genuinely Christ's shroud after all. In 1978 in his international bestseller The Turin Shroud Ian Wilson ignited worldwide public debate with his compelling case endorsing the shroud's authenticity. Now, 30 years later, he has completely rewritten and updated his earlier book to provide fresh evidence to support his original argument. The Shroud boldly challenges the current post-radiocarbon dating view -- that it is a fake. By arguing his case brilliantly and provocatively, Ian Wilson once more throws the matter into the public arena for further debate and controversy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553824228/?tag=2022091-20
(In this title, the author provides an overview of the shr...)
In this title, the author provides an overview of the shroud, its history and origins, the theories surrounding its "negative" image, and scientific discoveries made about its composition and provenance.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1854795015/?tag=2022091-20
( In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second...)
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The great Biblical flood so described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. In the 19th century the English archbishop James Ussher established it as having happened in the year 2348 B.C., calculating what was then taken as the age of the earth and working backward through the entire series of Biblical "begats." Proof of the flood, which is an element of so many creation myths, began in earnest when archaeology started connecting physical evidence with Biblical story. The dream of proving the Bible as literal truth has proven irresistible, producing both spurious claims and serious scholarship. As best-selling historian Ian Wilson reveals in this fascinating new book, evidence of a catastrophic event has been building steadily, culminating in the work of William Ryan and Walter Pitman. Several years ago Ryan and Pitman had posited that around 5600 BC there had an inundation in the Black Sea of such proportions that it turned the freshwater lake into a saltwater lake by connecting it to the Mediterranean. Were that true, they estimated that there would be signs of civilization 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea. In September 2000, using his famous underwater equipment, Robert Ballard (of SS Titanic fame) explored parts of the Black Sea near the Turkish shore and found the remains of wood houses. There had been a flood, and whether God's wrath or not it had destroyed everything around it for hundreds of miles, killing tens of thousands of people. Exploring all the archeological evidence, Wilson explains how the Black Sea flood and the Biblical flood have to be connected. In particular, Wilson argues, learnedly and persuasively, that the center of the civilized world was further to the West than previously thought-not in Egypt or Mesopotamia but in what is today Northern Turkey. The earliest, antediluvian civilizations may have migrated east into those places we have come to call the cradles of civilization, forced by the Black Sea flood to create new settlements. Scrupulous in its details and compelling in its sweep, Before the Flood is narrative detective history at its most provocative, contributing a vital new chapter to the debate about the Bible and origins of the modern world.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312304005/?tag=2022091-20
(In this controversial and provocative book, Ian Wilson in...)
In this controversial and provocative book, Ian Wilson investigates the compelling question of whether there is life after death. His research is based on riveting real-life experiences.To the die-hard skeptic they will be dismissed out-of-hand as no more than the hallucinations of the dying mind. But are they? Is there a link with the curious reported premortem visions and voices that are sometimes claimed by the dying? Is there perhaps a link with the all too little-understood phenomena of ghosts?Ian Wilson explores every aspect of the near-death experience: the floating "out of the body", the meeting with deceased relatives, encounters with a God or Christ-like "Being of Light", the "going back" to physical life -- not least, the subsequent conviction of the reality of some life beyond the grave.Comprehensive in scope, this book puts the case for the after life with new, convincingly argued evidence. It is the ultimate book on life after death.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0283063009/?tag=2022091-20
(The question of whether the Bible contains any element of...)
The question of whether the Bible contains any element of historical truth has been the cause of one of the most compelling debates of this century. Ian Wilson looks at the latest findings of eminent Biblical archaeologists and scholars in order to gain a crucial perspective on these arguments.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895262509/?tag=2022091-20
(An updated edition of the classic controversial work cons...)
An updated edition of the classic controversial work considers the history and facts surrounding the life, death, and legacy of Jesus and describes recent archaeological and scholarly discoveries.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062514725/?tag=2022091-20
(Presents archaeological evidence of a significant flood a...)
Presents archaeological evidence of a significant flood around 5600 B.C.E. that raised water surfaces some three hundred feet, noting discoveries beneath the Black Sea that indicated that it used to be a freshwater lake and that houses once stood there. Reprint.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008PM99VQ/?tag=2022091-20
(Just who discovered America's mainland? As Ian Wilson sho...)
Just who discovered America's mainland? As Ian Wilson shows in John Cabot and the Matthew, it was John Cabot, and a West Country crew of just 18, who left Bristol, England in May 1497. Sailing for 35 days, they reached the North American mainland in June. Up to that time, and for more than a year after, Columbus had only found West Indian Islands, and to his dying day continued to believe that these belonged to Asia. Ian Wilson suggests that Bristol mariners may even have found the American offshore island of Newfoundland as early as the 1480's, well before Columbus landed in the West Indies. John Cabot, however, was a discoverer in the mould of Columbus, ambitious to find a new, Atlantic route to Asia. After his first expeditions success he set off in 1498 with a full fleet of five vessels. Had they retu ed Cabot's name would surely rank above Columbus's in the history books? But it was not to be. A dark pal of mystery has hung over what exactly happened to Cabot and his ships, a mystery which Ian Wilson tries to unravel in the context of the trading rivalry-and espionage-between the great maritime nations of England, Spain, and Portugal. And he speculates on a subject dear to Bristolian hearts-did America get its name from the Bristol customs official Richard Ameryk, who was Cabot's paymaster, rather than the less likely Florentine, Amerigo Vespucci. John Cabot and the Matthew has been published to mark the 500th anniversary of Cabot's voyage, and the building of the replica Matthew. Ian Wilson, who lived in Bristol for 26 years, is the best selling author of such books as The Turin Shroud, Jesus: The Evidence, The Undiscovered (a review of lost cities, sunken ships, and unlocated tombs waiting to be found again) and the Columbus Myth.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1550811312/?tag=2022091-20
(In the second millennium BC the Aegean island of Thera ex...)
In the second millennium BC the Aegean island of Thera exploded in one of the most massive volcanic eruptions in human history. Could that catastrophe have been linked to the Biblical story of the exodus - the plagues of Egypt and the flight of the Israelites?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0297787497/?tag=2022091-20
(For the last 500 years the predictions of sixteenth-centu...)
For the last 500 years the predictions of sixteenth-century physician and prophet Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, have been endlessly interpreted. Scholars and skeptics have hotly debated whether the 946 "quatrains" he wrote foretold everything from the discovery of electricity to the birth of Adolph Hitler, the death of Princess Diana and the attack on the World Trade Center. But while much has been written about Nostradamus's predictions and their validity, little is known of the man. This definitive biography by bestselling historian Ian Wilson reveals the man behind the legend for the first time. Tracing Nostradamus's life from his early years to his skillful treatment of Black Plague sufferers, his flight from agents of the Spanish Inquisition, and his career as an advisor to the king of France, Nostradamus separates fact from fiction and reveals a complex figure who, whether or not he could see future events, was indelibly marked by those of his own time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011ME3QA8/?tag=2022091-20
(Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin S...)
Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brand-new historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary photographic imprint, is genuinely Christ's shroud after all. In 1978 in his international bestseller The Turin Shroud Ian Wilson ignited worldwide public debate with his compelling case endorsing the shroud's authenticity. Now, 30 years later, he has completely rewritten and updated his earlier book to provide fresh evidence to support his original argument. Shroud boldly challenges the current post-radiocarbon dating view - that it is a fake. By arguing his case brilliantly and provocatively, Ian Wilson once more throws the matter into the public arena for further debate and controversy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593063600/?tag=2022091-20
(A breezy, easy-to-read survey of the unsolved puzzles of ...)
A breezy, easy-to-read survey of the unsolved puzzles of history and the deeper mysteries behind our more recent and exotic archeological finds. 85 black-and-white illustrations. 37 maps.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/068807278X/?tag=2022091-20
He was born in Clapham, south London, during World World War II and some of his earliest memories are of the Blitz.
He graduated in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford.
He has investigated such topics as the Shroud of Turin and life after death. He first came across the Shroud during the 1950s, when he was in his mid-teens, in an illustrated article by World World War II hero Group Captain Leonard Cheshire. Wilson is most well known for his research on Shroud of Turin.
The Historian Charles Freeman has heavily criticized Wilson"s writings on the subject, commenting "He is not taken seriously by any respected historian.
Wilson has failed to provide any significant evidence from this mass of material to back his narrative. lieutenant seems to fail at every point.
He provides no evidence that the Shroud existed in Jerusalem, no evidence that a burial shroud arrived in Edessa."
He participated in the three part 1984 Channel 4 television series Jesus: The Evidence and wrote the accompanying book of the same name. They have two sons, Adrian and Noel.
(Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin S...)
(In this title, the author provides an overview of the shr...)
( In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second...)
(An updated edition of the classic controversial work cons...)
(Just who discovered America's mainland? As Ian Wilson sho...)
( For the last 500 years the predictions of sixteenth-cen...)
(For the last 500 years the predictions of sixteenth-centu...)
(The question of whether the Bible contains any element of...)
(A breezy, easy-to-read survey of the unsolved puzzles of ...)
(In this controversial and provocative book, Ian Wilson in...)
(In the second millennium BC the Aegean island of Thera ex...)
(Rewritten and updated from Ian Wilson's original 1978 bes...)
(Presents archaeological evidence of a significant flood a...)