The Lost Continent of Mu [Paperback]

James Churchward (Author), David Hatcher Childress (Introduction)

Product Details

• Paperback: 335 pages
• Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press (September 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 193188272X
• ISBN-13: 978-1931882729
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #562,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing speculation of unexplained wonders., August 6, 2007

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Continent of Mu (Paperback)

Originally published in 1926, The Lost Continent of Mu is a classic text now with a new introduction by David Hatcher Childress. The Lost Continent of Mu theorizes that a now-lost continent once existed in the Pacific, with a thriving human civilization. Author Churchwald presents what he learned from ancient carved tablets, hidden for thousands of years in Hindu temple vaults, and the mysteries locked in their heretofore unintelligible arcane script. The script, allegedly the original language of mankind, told of an advanced worldwide civilization on a continent in the Pacific, which was eventually destroyed by cataclysm. A handful of black-and-white illustrations add a visual touch to this amazing speculation of unexplained wonders.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finds Mu under every rock, October 9, 2008

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Rick M. Pilotte "Author, artist, and solver o... (Victoria BC Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Continent of Mu (Paperback)

This is an important book when considering earth's geologic past.

Admittedly while reading this, I felt Churchward was finding evidence of Mu under every rock and at first I tended to discount his theories because of this seeming finding evidence for Mu in every continent around the globe. I suspect he may have been confusing MU's evidence with that of Atlantis and Lemuria. However if there are people out there who readily discount this mans research as a "laugh", remember that in the 1970's it was concluded that based on the evidence on many Pacific islands that there at one time existed an eighth continent they dubbed "Pacifica", thus vindicating much of Churchwards findings.

Considering the fact that Churchward found his evidence using recorded past as some of his clues, one has to be willing to re-evaluate a lot of geologic theores and dating methods, for he showed that during recorded history, man was watching the land move: similar to Velikovsky's conlusions a little over 20 years later.

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, December 16, 2011

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Mavis "Mavis" (Blue State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Continent of Mu (Paperback)

I read Churchward's MU series years ago. It kept me spellbound at the time. It was incredibly fascinating to think that there was another lost civilization OLDER than even Atlantis and more advanced. I wondered at the time how this had gotten past Edgar Cayce's readings on Atlantis if Mu was even older. As I read all of his series, each book was less and less interesting - much in the same way Von Daniken's books became less impressive with each bit of "new" information that he revealed. My one big complaint about Churchward was his glaring and offensive racism. You can't help but notice how the more advanced peoples were always white and that there was a hierarchical system of races in which whites were always at the top. So much for a truly advanced enlightened people. He also took great pleasure, it seems, in bashing Jews. Churchward was definitely a man of his times, sorry to say, but totally unsurprising, even though he was incredibly offensive in that regard.