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25 A REVIEW OF HIS NEW BOOK, "LOST CONTINENTS" BY L. Sprague de Camp "LOST CONTINENTS: THE ATLANTIS THEME IN HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE represents the fruit of many years' research. It is about 90,000 words of text plus 20,000 of appendices and other end-matter. Excerpts have appeared in recent articles in ASF and GALAXY. The contents of the book are as follows, by chapters: I. THE STORY OF ATLANTIS. Plato's original tale of the sinking of Atlantis, the reactions of other Classical scholars to Plato's tale, and the origin of some of the elements(e.g. the Titan atlas)in Plato's story. II. THE RESURGENCE OF ATLANTIS. The revival of Atlantism following the Age of Exploration, and the pseudo-scientific speculations resulting from the work of Diego de Landa; the popularization of Atlantism by Donnelly, Le Plongeon, Paul Schliemann, and Churchward. III. THE LAND OF THE LEMURS. The origin of the term "Lemuria", and occult Atlantism as represented by Mme. Blavatsky, Scott-Elliot, Ballard, and others. IV. THE HUNTING OF THE COGNATE. The theories of some of the more moderate Atlantists like Lewis Spence; Atlantean societies; the eccentric cosmological speculations of Horbiger and Velkiovski; the pseudo-scientific linguistic methods used by some Atlantists. V. THE MAYAN MYSTERIES. The discovery and conquest of the Mayas, and their history and culture, the speculations about them, and their probable actual origin. VI. WELSH AND OTHER INDIANS. The arguments about the origin of the Amerinds -- The Welsh-Indian, Jewish-Indian, Polynesian--Indian, etc. theories, the diffusionist controversy and the "Mayan Elephants"; and their relation to Atlantism. VII. THE CREEPING CONTINENTS. The lost-continent theories of the gologists; the stable-continent, transoceanic-continent, and contin-
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25 A REVIEW OF HIS NEW BOOK, "LOST CONTINENTS" BY L. Sprague de Camp "LOST CONTINENTS: THE ATLANTIS THEME IN HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE represents the fruit of many years' research. It is about 90,000 words of text plus 20,000 of appendices and other end-matter. Excerpts have appeared in recent articles in ASF and GALAXY. The contents of the book are as follows, by chapters: I. THE STORY OF ATLANTIS. Plato's original tale of the sinking of Atlantis, the reactions of other Classical scholars to Plato's tale, and the origin of some of the elements(e.g. the Titan atlas)in Plato's story. II. THE RESURGENCE OF ATLANTIS. The revival of Atlantism following the Age of Exploration, and the pseudo-scientific speculations resulting from the work of Diego de Landa; the popularization of Atlantism by Donnelly, Le Plongeon, Paul Schliemann, and Churchward. III. THE LAND OF THE LEMURS. The origin of the term "Lemuria", and occult Atlantism as represented by Mme. Blavatsky, Scott-Elliot, Ballard, and others. IV. THE HUNTING OF THE COGNATE. The theories of some of the more moderate Atlantists like Lewis Spence; Atlantean societies; the eccentric cosmological speculations of Horbiger and Velkiovski; the pseudo-scientific linguistic methods used by some Atlantists. V. THE MAYAN MYSTERIES. The discovery and conquest of the Mayas, and their history and culture, the speculations about them, and their probable actual origin. VI. WELSH AND OTHER INDIANS. The arguments about the origin of the Amerinds -- The Welsh-Indian, Jewish-Indian, Polynesian--Indian, etc. theories, the diffusionist controversy and the "Mayan Elephants"; and their relation to Atlantism. VII. THE CREEPING CONTINENTS. The lost-continent theories of the gologists; the stable-continent, transoceanic-continent, and contin-
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