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The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle
"For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript, has been published, featuring essays exploring what is known about the book and extra-wide margins so readers can record their responses to its beguiling, beautiful strangeness."-Nina Maclaughlin, Bostonā¦
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Seven hundred years ago, someone (no one knows who) wrote a book full of mysterious letters and even more mysterious drawings of unknown plants described in unreadable paragraphs.
For centuries, people have struggled to eke some meaning from the bookās pages. Cryptologist William F. Friedman (the man who broke the Japanese code in WWII) spent his life trying to decipher the book. And all in vain.
No one knows what information the book contains. It could be anything! Simple steps for building a hydrogen bomb? Your parentsā deepest, darkest bathroom secrets? Maps of Atlantis? Maybe! This is the most dangerousā¦
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