"An exploration of the legend of the lost island of Atlantis. Features include maps, reconstructions of Atlantis, links to other cultures, places to see and visit, a glossary, and index"--
Grandfather left his grandson a seafarer’s chest, a parrot called Titanic and a dream – the dream of looking for Atlantis. “Atlantis is right here all around you,” Grandfather said, “you have to learn how to look for it.” So ...
The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination.
Describes the legends of the lost city of Atlantis; investigates historical theories about Atlantis and discusses their possibilities; and details examples of Atlantis being referenced in art and literature.
Describes the thirty-year quest of Olof Rudbeck, a seventeenth-century explorer, adventurer, and Renaissance man to locate a long-lost civilization that he believed once thrived in the far north of his native Sweden.
"A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato.
When danger strikes, a young stowaway comes to their rescue. Readers must follow each clue as the story unfolds, and decode a series of puzzles using the enclosed code wheel.
After his grandfather's death, a young boy learns to see the wonders of the world through the old man's eyes.
The theosophists Madame Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner expanded the mythology and wrote about Atlanteans as a “root race” that actually existed ten thousand years ago. Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine (1888) described Atlanteans as godlike ...
Almost yearly, ancient ruins are declared to be clues to finding Atlantis, a huge island where an advanced civilization is said to have lived.
Atlantis of the Sands: The Search for the Lost City of Ubar