- Hardcover: 184 pages
- Publisher: W&N; illustrated edition edition (12 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1900624192
- ISBN-13: 978-1900624190
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 543,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The Bolivian Altiplano is shaping up as by far the most promising candidate for the lost world of Atlantis' Geographical Magazine 'Lays the groundwork for future research' The Mail on Sunday 'Allen's free spirit and unquenchable curiosity makes you want to believe' The Express on Sunday
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'The Bolivian Altiplano is shaping up as by far the most promising candidate for the lost world of Atlantis' Geographical Magazine 'Lays the groundwork for future research' The Mail on Sunday 'Allen's free spirit and unquenchable curiosity makes you want to believe' The Express on Sunday
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The author attempts to solve the most tantalising of ancient myths in an essay like format. The author's lack of historical grounding is reflected in the rather clumsy layout of the argument, and the frequent repetition of evidence. Frustratingly the author begins to try and prove a link between the ancient cultures, without ever getting to a satisfactory conclusion. This is indeed the problem that has affected all historians proporting the one common cultural ancestory theory. The author leaves himself open to critism by putting forward unsubstantiated theories, such as the origin of gold found in the Egyptian tombs.
However any theory about a civilisation which left no architectural or written evidence of it's greatness, is bound to be controversial. The book contained some very interesting points, such as the cocaine mummies found in Egypt, the defeat of the mysterious 'Sea People' by the Egyptian king Ramesis II and the navigational ailities of the Phoenecian people.
On the whole the book was a compelling read for anyone with an interest in ancient culture.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great book, I lost my old copy but I was so impressed with it last time around I decided to get it again.
Oh and by the way, did the dead fly between the back page and cover come free lol.
Oh and by the way, did the dead fly between the back page and cover come free lol.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
The Andes Solution May Solve Half of the Mystery of Atlantis
9 Oct 1999
Format:Hardcover
J. M. Allen correctly rejects Ignatius Donnelly's reading of Plato which placed Atlantis as "opposed to the Pillars of Heracles" rather than "across from the Straits" as related in Sir Desmond Lee's definitive translation. Thus Allen overcomes the common mistake that led scores of Donnelly's followers to posit Atlantis as a sunken island in the Atlantic (geologically unsustainable), rather than as an island-continent across the Atlantic (the Americas) whose civilization was destroyed but whose "bare-bones" still appear (Caribbean Islands). In choosing Bolivia as the site of Atlantis Allen has also chosen an ancient megalithic civilization of great antiquity built on the squared plain and canal system described by Plato. Tihuanacu very probably was a recipient or contemporary of Atlantean culture. The crucial problem with the "Andes Solution" is that the Altiplano of present-day Bolivia stands 12,000 feet above sea-level. Plato's Atlantis had a navigational base at its center that traded with sea-farers on a world-wide basis. Perhaps Allen is "half-right" in identifying So. America as the "island-continent," one as large as Asia and Libya combined. The Americas are in fact one continent -- a continent in antiquity because its reaches north and south could not fully be described, an island because it could be crossed easily from the Caribbean to the greater sea of the Pacific. And at the center of the Americas, a land that creatively connects the great ocean currents, there lie the most enigmatic relics of a great civilization, the almost perfect stone spheres of Costa Rica. For another argument on the nature and location of Atlantis read ATLANTIS IN AMERICA: NAVIGATORS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson.
21 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Just awful, and very disappointing
2 Dec 1999
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This book is a very disjointed, rambling and unstructured set of paragraphs about an intriguing idea - which the author entirely fails to prove, or even to strengthen.
The premise of the book is that Atlantis was actually located on a plain at 12,000 feet high in Bolivia, and that people from there sailed 1,500 miles down rivers and then across the Atlantic to invade northern Africa and southern Europe, eventually to be repelled by Athens.
The geographical research is rambling and sketchy at best. No rationale for why people living on the west side of South America would ignore Brazil, and the rest of the western hemishpere to attack powerful forces along the Mediterranean.
Of this 173 page book, 8 pages are a not very enthusiastic introduction. The next 20 pages ramble on about the theory. 22 pages are a challenging translation of parts of Plato. The rest demonstrates the authors lack of organization when he finally visits Bolivia, his lack of knowledge or understanding of the sheer size of South America in general, and his lack of structure in writing.
An editor would have helped this book a lot. St. Martin's press did this author no favors in whatever editorial support they failed to provide.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Poor Quality and Presentation
30 Mar 2002
Format:Hardcover
While the book's premise is both unique and interesting, that the lost city of Atlantis can be found in the Bolivian Altiplano, there are major problems with this book. Firstly, this clearly is not a scholarly piece of work. It is poorly written and poorly presented. There is a lack of coherence and understanding to the ideas presented, the works cited, and even the diagrams utilized. Secondly, the works and diagrams cited in this book are done so without proper reference to their source and context. There is not even a precise map of the author's journey through Bolivia, nor how the purported location of Atlantis is situated with respect to other key cultural centres past and present that might add substance to the author's theory.
Thirdly, while the author is unable to find evidence correlating all of Plato's statements regarding Atlantis, no explanation is given for this. In fact one could argue that the author's interpretion of Plato's statements is somewhat subjective, seeing only what the author wants to see. Fourthly, very little evidence is presented to support the author's theory. A review of aerial maps and a drive across the Altiplano is the crux of the evidence presented. In fact, most of the book is spent speculating about related theories of antiquity, and even this is done with a degree of naivete.
In summary, although there is a lack of academic scholarship and expertise in this work, I do give the author credit for the originality of the theory. If anyone is to blame for this book, however, it is not the author, but the editor and publisher for allowing a book of such poor quality, presentation, lack of depth and substance to be published in the first place.
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