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Lost continents : the Atlantis theme in history, science, and literature / L. Sprague De Camp.
LIBRA GN751 .D38 1970
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague), 1907-2000.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lost continents.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 348 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, [1970]
- Summary:
- Leading authority examines facts and fancies behind the Atlantis theme in history, science, and literature. Sources include Plato, Thomas More, K. T. Frost, and many other citations, both famous and lesser-known. Related legends are also recounted and refuted, and reports document attempts to prove the continent's existence, including accounts of actual expeditions.
- Notes:
- Revised republication of the work originally published by Gnome Press, Inc., in 1954
- Bibliography: pages 319-331.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has slightly water damaged pages along bottom edge.
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 268618
- ISBN:
- 0486226689
- OCLC:
- 141898
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