My thanks to you all for your thoughtful responses. The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena[/a] sounds like a fine starting-point, and most closely matches what I’d had in mind. I might well send my friend [amazon ASIN=0393329127]Spook[/a] and/or [amazon ASIN=0434003352]Borderlands too, and possibly some of the other titles suggested if he finds these to his liking.
I was interested to see that the original Time/Life Mysteries of the Unknown series extended to thirty-two volumes! The books sound excellent, but unless I were very selective, shipping them would be expensive…
Also, some of the other suggestions (Extraordinary Popular Delusions… for example), while not quite the kind of book I was thinking of, sound like works I’d like to read for myself.
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