A Natural History of Ghosts - 500 Years of Hunting for Proof

Note - Crease on front cover and foxing on page edges, and front and back pages of book

Is there anybody out there? However rational we think we are, few of us are completely immune to the idea of ghosts. What explains spectral sightings? Why do we fear the supernatural? Why are some poeple or cultures more likely to eperience haintings than others? And what proof is there? A highly enjoyable, and disturbing, work. Where others naturally flee ghosts, Clarke pursues them...