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One might have some intrepidation about a book with "Atlantis" on the cover or flourish like "the place where civilization really began." However, there is a lot of interesting material in this reprint of the 1947 book. Global cataclysms affecting mankind is now again a popular topic (The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture), and Wilkins mines legends for hints of past events. He does make assumptions in connecting many things with Atlantis, hypothesizing that the survivors came to Central and South America. Were they from the fabled Atlantis, other voyagers or both? See also In Search of Quetzalcoatl: The Mysterious Heritage of American Civilization.
He dates the Atlantis destruction at the end of the last Ice Age, more or less, as many do. Indeed, there seems to be a cosmic impact event then, but others have questioned if it makes sense for an advanced people to exist during the Stone Age and place them during the Bronze Age and destroyed in a different event (see The Lost Empire of Atlantis). Wilkins can be loose and speculative with his datings, but his suggestion of earlier arrival in the Americas has since been vindicated (The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory).Read more ›
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This book contains many fascinating facts. The author engages in a lot of speculation about how things occurred, but he obviously put a tremendous amount of time into this book.
As a person interested in our extremely obscure past, I admire people like Harold T. Wilkens who devoted their lives to trying to learn as much as they can. Many amateurs have made fantastic discoveries, based on their own interpretations of the historical and archaeological evidence.
Just today I read of the discovery of a lost city in Honduras, from an unknown past civilization. (3/3/2015). The world holds tons of unknown structures and ruins, both on land and under water, but we spend most of our time in wars and other nasty pursuits than in trying to learn about our own past and how we got into our current situation.
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The author is actually Harold T. Wilkins, as the book cover states. This is, along with Wilkins's other volume on South American mysteries, extremely interesting and chock full of theories and facts not found elsewhere. Great fun to read.
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