- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Floris Books (21 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0863156975
- ISBN-13: 978-0863156977
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 2.1 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 624,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The investigator Jim Allen put forward a few years ago a revolutionary hypothesis about the location of Atlantis on the Bolivian Altiplano ... some recent discoveries, such as the discovery that the American continent was populated much earlier than previously thought, appear to back him up.' -- 'Mas Alla' Magazine 'This is a very readable account, a bit of a page-turner actually. I found the theories behind this book entirely plausible, based upon Jim Allen's aerial maps and on local archaeology. Even the local mythology parallels the myths retold in the Greek account ... for those who find the legend and the reality a source of fascination, for anyone who likes to explore a mystery further, this book will not disappoint.' -- Inner Light Magazine 'Allen seems to have discovered a number of intriguing mysteries requiring investigation' -- John Billingsley, Northern Earth The author, who was a photographic interpreter with RAF Intelligence, has come up with a humdinger of a new theory. -- BM Cauldron 'His research is methodical, detailed and supported by some excellent satellite photography... the theory is intriguing.' -- Sarah Scott, Kindred Spirit Dec 2009 'Of all the locations proposed for Plato's Atlantis, this is one of the most intriguing, and Allen's tabulation of the requirements, if it does not quite prove his own, at least destroys the credibility of rival claims for Thera, Troy, Andalucia, the Azores, Cuba, and Antarctica.' -- Josceylyn Gowin, author of Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World, in Scientific and Medical Network Review, Spring 2010
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This remarkable study is the culmination of thirty years' research into the possibility that the continent we know today as 'South America' is none other than the ancient continent of Atlantis. Assembling a wide body of evidence, the study concludes that the fabled lost city of Atlantis itself, as described by Plato, may have existed on the Altiplano in Bolivia, identifying a site complete with a rectangular plain, concentric rings of land and water channels just as Plato described it. The true history of this remote, beautiful and fascinating region was lost as a result of the Spanish Conquest when the continent was renamed America. Indeed the first accounts of Inca history by Spanish writers of the period, later suppressed by the authorities and only recently made public, confirm that 'America' was originally known as Atlantis. Now, for the first time, Jim Allen's research presents an 'Atlantis theory' backed up with full documentation of a site which corresponds to Plato's detailed description on a wide variety of points: the level rectangular plain, the mysterious metal 'orichalcum', red, black and white stones, hot and cold springs, the five pairs of twin sons, as well as the local legend of a city sunk by earthquakes, leaving a site which can still be visited today. The book is lavishly illustrated with line drawings and photographs, many taken during the author's expeditions in the field.
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I'd seen an interview with the author on a programme on the Discovery channel and thought that it looked interesting. Having read Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age I was looking forward to the same sort of thing (thought provoking evidence backed up by photographs, diagrams etc, well explained etc) but Graham Hancock is a journalist and Jim Allen - bless his socks - is an ex RAF Cartographer, and it shows.
Jim Allen might well have discovered Atlantis. He might well have discovered all sorts of evidence to this effect and he has certainly made all sorts of conclusions. The problem is that - from his book - the only one of those three statements that I can be certain about is the last one.
I found the book very hard to actually read, ponderous and with little real structure and far less convincing because of that. The photos were borderline holiday snaps and the maps (what I'd have hoped with his background would have been the meat of his argument) were fairly unclear and unconvincing. Maybe if I was a professional cartographer too, I'd have understood more of them and - with a trained eye - said "Oh yes Jim: I get what you're saying!" but - like the vast majority of the readers of this book - that's not my line of work and the book should have been written with that in mind, I feel.
Go back and get some more evidence Mr Allen, present it better in your next book and I look forward to reading it!
Jim Allen might well have discovered Atlantis. He might well have discovered all sorts of evidence to this effect and he has certainly made all sorts of conclusions. The problem is that - from his book - the only one of those three statements that I can be certain about is the last one.
I found the book very hard to actually read, ponderous and with little real structure and far less convincing because of that. The photos were borderline holiday snaps and the maps (what I'd have hoped with his background would have been the meat of his argument) were fairly unclear and unconvincing. Maybe if I was a professional cartographer too, I'd have understood more of them and - with a trained eye - said "Oh yes Jim: I get what you're saying!" but - like the vast majority of the readers of this book - that's not my line of work and the book should have been written with that in mind, I feel.
Go back and get some more evidence Mr Allen, present it better in your next book and I look forward to reading it!
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