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When the Earth Nearly Died: Compelling Evidence of a Catastrophic World Change 9500 B.C. (Paperback)

by D.S. Allan (Author), J.B. Delair (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Gateway (30 Nov 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1858600081
  • ISBN-13: 978-1858600086
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 17.1 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 437,706 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Carefully gathered evidence from many disciplines tell of a cataclysm which nearly destroyed Earth and Mars about 11,500 years ago. Ancient oral traditions from scores of cultures describe how a golden age disappeared with appalling devastation, which is supported by archaeological, botanical, astronomical and geological evidence. The findings have some relevance for present world changes.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars About time!, 20 Jul 1999
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When I bought this book I was intrigued by the title and had hopes as to what it would tell me. I had already read several other books alluding to a disaster of recent human memory that had been a worldwide event which modern man had forgotten. All they had failed to supply was anything "scientific" to account for why such changes had taken place if they were not due to the uniformitarian concepts that I was schooled to believe. This book did.

There are too many unanswered questions when it comes to Man's recent history, too many anomalies and this book is the best I have read which goes some way towards answering them. Some reviewers have used the term Pseudo-Science when dismissing this title as mere speculation based on myth, which I believe is just too narrow-minded an approach to take. Something happened. It may not have been Phaeton as this book suggests, but whatever it was is not answered by conventional theory, the evidence just doesn't add up. This is just an opinion but if you want to read a thought-prevoking book about something so huge that it almost wiped out our whole planet I'd give it a try.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Things That Make You Go "Hmmmmmm", 23 Mar 1999
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Thought provoking? Absolutely. Am I sold on their theory of an interstellar chunk of stellar material playing havoc on the Earth? I have my reasonable doubts, but there was more than enough footnotes for me to check it out for myself. And the more I research, the more I become convinced that *something* happened to this biosphere ~12K years ago. That said, this endeavour has shaken my education to its foundation. Indeed, there are numerous instances that the authors bring to light that make one question what one has been taught in school. As an anthropologist, I believe that myth (and especially the Deluge myth) was founded on reality and filtered through the limited understanding of ancient peoples. Any anthropologist worth his salt realizes that different peoples of tribes, locals, even continents, have myths of remarkably similar themes, these make one wonder WHY the common thread; and WHY is this so easily dismissed? Those who dismiss myth as fantasy ought to remember that history is manipulated thru the perceptions of the author, a modern myth. It's very sad that the modern-day religion of science takes the position of dismissing reasonable factoids on the general principal of "doesn't compute with current theories so talk to the hand." Read it for yourself. Take it to a local library and research the bibliography for yourself. You might find yourself doing a remarkable thing, becoming a questioning being and not a rote automaton.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a reader, 17 Dec 2006
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Looking at the other reviews I was prompted to write this one in an effort to redress the objectionable references to pseudo-science. Derek All an spent a lifetime in teaching and in his spare time spent over 40 years collecting and cataloguing geological information and this book is the culmination of all that research. It was published in the latter years of his life which is why some of his sources appear outdated. However, unlike other authors on the end of the Pleistocene the authors of this book include a vast amount of material from Russian field research published in obscure and difficult to get hold of journals and as such this work has a novel twist that other western geological authors do not possess. It is not psuedo science and the critics I've read simply reinforce my personal view that going to university is more about becoming indoctrinated than in using the brain to think logically and independantly. Personally, I don't think for one moment that a piece of a star from a supernovae impacted with the earth to account for the catastrophic evidence they have found in geological structures across northern Euro Asia into Alaska. Surely, the huge depressions in the crust that are in places up to four thousand feet deep and filled with the mixed remains of animals, plants, trees, rocks and gravels etc are evidence - or do modern scientists sit in front of their computers and play with models of past environments instead of getting out in the real world and looking at the real evidence which has been reported over and over again for over a hundred years. Its there. The evidence. Look at it or read about it. Don't assume your college lecturere is talking the truth and for gods sake don't become a born again gradualist because that is the thing to do or the current fashion among intellectually deprived people. Use your head independantly.
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