Unfortunately, Bosley relies heavily on a biography by Roy E. Were the life of every author assessed as fact simply by analyzing his fiction, then there would be no need for memoir or biography. Bosley then promotes discredited claims that Bierce hated his parents, as evidenced by his fiction. Of course everyone loves a good conspiracy theory, right? So if you have a pliable mind and are a lover of would-be conspiracies, then this is the book for you.ī osley's book gets off to an annoying start by asserting that Bierce "is probably most famous for his disappearance in 1913." In fact, his disappearance is a mere footnote to a long and voluminous literary life. What does all this have to do with Ambrose Bierce?Īlthough Bosley spends 296 pages hopelessly attempting to make a case. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure about any of this since the Sonora Aero Club isn't really explained - nor is much else in this book. Thus, a German connection that may have inspired the Sonora Aero Club. These queer machinations seem to have had something to do with a German artist named Charles Dellschau who, around 1899, painted watercolors of various types of flying machines. The airship sightings allegedly occurred in the years before and after the turn of the last century, particularly in San Francisco and San Bernardino, and reputedly dealt with breakaway civilizations, whatever they were. This coterie, back in the day, is said to have spawned an interest in identifying mystery airships, much like our UFOs.
#BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION WALTER BOSLEY SERIES#
But task I shall.īosley's Destination: Carcosa, Ambrose Bierce and The Empire of the Wheel is apparently the third in a series about a purported secret German group, NYMZA (it is never revealed what the acronym is supposed to stand for), which was somehow involved in something called the Sonora Aero Club. I t is difficult to take to task a self-published book that an author with a spirited imagination like Walter Bosley took such pains to write. Ambrose Bierce and the Empire of the Wheel
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