Title: A sugar-coated excursion into the fallacious.
Product review: I saw a copy of this at a bookstore and was relatively horrified at the amazing lack of truthful information. Ms. Fernando seems to have spent a great deal of time filling up her pages with tangential nonsense rather than exploring the heart of the matter. Alchemy is a fascinating subject which is entirely capable of filling modest libraries with its centuries old wisdom. This book only gleams the surface and makes inadequate simplifications. Various mystics throughout history are given brief bios generally ending in "and he was an alchemist." Several of these are incorrect (i.e. Maimonides) and seem to have been inserted to gather historical support. Alchemy's history is rich and doesn't need this infantile form of scholarship.
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