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Author Sullivan, Robert, 1953-

Title Atlantis rising : the true story of a submerged land yesterday and today / by Robert Sullivan ; drawings by Glenn Wolff.

Imprint New York : Simon & Schuster, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 Su55a 1999    ---  Available
Description 95 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 94).
Summary Plato was the one who first reported the existence of a vast island with immense mountains, verdant valleys and fruit "fair and wondrous and in infinite abundance." This magnificent Aegean Eden surrounded a capital of fabulous stone buildings, a busy, bustling heaven on earth. And then, the Cataclysm. Panic spread across the island as Atlantis's volcano shook off its long dormancy. The mountain erupted, and the island was overwhelmed, engulfed. The sea smoothed over, and the continent and its occupants were gone forever.
Enter Robert Sullivan, who first rose to international prominence with his breakthrough research on Santa Claus. In Atlantis Rising, Sullivan reveals evidence even more startling than that contained in his myth-shattering Flight of the Reindeer: The True Story of Santa Claus and His Christmas Mission. Set upon his Atlantean quest by Amos S. Eno, executive director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and lured further and further on by the mysterious oceanographer who calls himself "Atwater," Sullivan is able to separate historical truth from mere legend, fact from fiction, science from silliness. Delving into the historical record, then into secret files that have long been under lock and key at the famous Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, he discovers rare transcripts, documents, maps and, incredibly, photographs. They are all here in Atlantis Rising, along with dozens of paintings by the renowned natural-history artist Glenn Wolff. It adds up to an astonishing tale and a powerful moral.
Subject Atlantis (Legendary place)
Santorini Volcano (Greece)
Added Author Wolff, Glenn.
ISBN 0684855240
9780684855240

 
    
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