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Loading... Atlantis: The Eighth Continent (1984)by Charles Berlitz
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Good condition with dust jacket. Manuscript inscription in ink opposite the title page: "To Bob Warth with appreciationfor his help & leadership! Charles Berlitz Black-and-white silver gelatin photo print of Berlitz (appears to be same portrait as the one used on the back flap of the dust jacket) tipped in loose between pages 98 and 99. no reviews | add a review
Complies information suggesting that 10,000 or more years ago, an advanced civilization flourished on a continent called Atlantis, now sunk beneth the sea. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)398.234Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literature Tales and lore of places and timesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Bringing forth ruins and cultural evidence from both sides of the Atlantic, Berlitz began his argument by attempting to show a shared connection between numerous cultures across the world that seemed to be influenced by the same source. Then he became chronicling the scientific discoveries of unwater ruins, dismissed by scientists as natural phenomena, that prove ruins of an ancient civilization having existed in the mid-Atlantic. While a surface reading of this material is thought-provoking, Berlitz’s misunderstanding of geology undermined the book back in the mid-80s. The science of plate tectonics is the biggest problem with Berlitz’s book and the fact that his understanding is so wrong would make you shake your head.
While there are a lot Berlitz’s theories that just don’t stack up, he did expression layman ideas that surprisingly have begun to be debated within the scientific community though for reasons close to Atlantis. The first is that cataclysms can and do occur within the geological record, but his thoughts and evidence are nothing compared to Dr. Robert M. Schoch’s. The second was suggesting that an impact event occurred at the end of the last Ice Age that caused a sudden melting of ice, while scientists are beginning to believe an impact did occur it actually resulted in sudden cooling instead of heating. Yet these two ideas do not make up for all the incorrect assumptions Berlitz’s writes.
Atlantis: The Eighth Continent is packed full of cultural information from around the world that is its major appeal along with two ideas by the author that are now being debated by scientists but not to prove Atlantis. Frankly the evidence doesn’t prove Atlantis in the mid-Atlantic, but it’s a curious read nonetheless. ( )