Atlantis: Myth or Reality

by Murry Hope

Book Overview

A painstaking piece of detective work, drawing on all available evidence, this is the most thorough and important work on a perennially fascinating topic. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140192328
• ISBN13: 9780140192322
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Atlantis: Myth or Reality

I thought it was great. It helped my a lot with a science project on the supposed reality of Atlantis. It really cleared up a few problems I had from other sources. Best of all, though, was the ease of read.

Excellent survey of Myth but placement of Atlantis Wrong.

Hope writes knowingly on the nature of Atlantis and Atlanteans and ofthe world-wide myths that survived the Golden Age. Unfortunately,Hope's account suffers from a reliance on Ignatius Donnelly's 19thcentury placement of Atlantis as "opposed to the Pillars ofHeracles (Straits of Gibraltar) rather than "across" fromthem as Plato wrote. Thus Hope, like many others, posits Atlantis as asunken island in the Atlantic (geologially unsustainable), rather thanas the "island-continent" Plato described.

A astonishingly well balanced book on such an earthly matter

Murry Hope`s book on the question whether Atlantis is Myth or Reality is an astonishingly well-balanced work for someone who was a founder of the Atlantean Society and therefore tends to be biased towards the very existence of Atlantis .As an Atlantean from the heart of Europe actually living on the remaining islands of Mu right now so to speak(though I tend to challenge the existence of both continents), it was a pleasure to read, but the book also gave me again the insight as so many books on the subject do, that the more we might feel the real presence of Atlantis the more we wind up in mystery.