Atlantis Rising

by Brad Steiger

Book Overview

Startling similarities in technology and culture among peoples who never could have seen each other. Universal myths of a great flood. Superhighways in countries that had not yet invented the wheel.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0722181329
• ISBN13: 9780722181324
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Dell
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Another Masterwork Republished

I've come to count on one thing these past ten years...every time Brad or Sherry Steiger release another book, I'm in for several subsequent nights of sleep depravation. Republished from it's original release in 1973, and with a new forward by Frank Joseph, "Atlantis Rising was, and still is, one of the premiere texts on any theory about the lost continent of Atlantis. At the time of it's original writing, I was a boy growing up in very rural Arkansas, and the only exposure I had to this was on one of the three channels we were able to receive...documentaries by Rod Serling, and just about to be fired up, the legendary series "In Search Of..." At the time, I had a passive interest in the esoteric, but 15 years later (and to this day), it would change into a life consuming quest, after rudely being plunged into real-life paranormal events that continue to this day. I've always had an interest in Atlantis and USO's (Unidentified Submerged Objects) ever since my first summer job three years later, as a bait boy on my uncle's commercial fishing vessel. The open seas are a strange place, and seeing as we've explored a pitiful fraction of what lies under our oceans, combined with stories reaching back to the beginning of written history, you can't help but feel there is some truth to the stories of Atlantis (not to mention with all the evidence that points to prior civilizations and the fact that our civilization exploded out of nowhere). If you've ever wondered about Atlantis, this book just about covers it all...possible high civilizations prior to academically accepted history, ancient sea exploration and explorers, early historical teachings, the extra-dimensional connection, inner earth, the occult version, Edger Cayce and the view of the rise of Atlantis in regard to Armageddon. As usual, Brad's clear readability and excellent categorization makes all these topics easy to follow and understand, and leads us to formulate many of our own questions and theories. Again, remember that this is a reprint from 25 years ago...when originally published, the only other books in it's category were "Chariots of the Gods" and books on the Bermuda Triangle, so also remember that this information was incredible and clear for the time of it's original publishing. Looking over several reviews of Brads books, there is also something I must make clear...all the scathing reviews I see seem to mostly come form "academic know-it-alls" If you are looking for purely scientific write-ups, this material is not for you. Brad relies, and is one of the best at what has become a lost art...pure journalism. Research, gathering stories and material, and presenting them without cramming them down your throat with lofty opinions...he presents them for you to decide (what to think of them). His purpose is just to make you think, and he does that very well. Remember how I opened this review, knowing that when I pick up a Steiger book, that I'm in for several nights of sleep

Atlantis Rises Yet Again!

Inexplicata gives this book five stars (* * * * *) About thirty years ago, a schoolboy walked into a local bookstore and noticed a misplaced book: a paperback with a Frank Frazetta cover had been inadvertently placed in the science fiction section when it should have been in the esoterica aisle (as it was called back then). Intrigued, he leafed through it and found himself spending at least half an hour reading at the store, too irresistible to put down. After buying it, he continued perusing its contents on the bus back home; the next day, the book accompanied him to school, where he read it during class time, keeping it from the watchful, restless eyes of the nuns at his school. The book with the Frazetta cover was called Atlantis Rising, its author was Brad Steiger, and the inquisitive schoolboy was me. Atlantis was always a name to charm anyone with an interest in antiquity, real or legendary. Comic books like Korg: 70,000 BC pitted cavemen against red-tunicked Atlanteans with high technology, Robert E. Howard's Conan The Barbarian was set in the centuries after the fall of Atlantis. Movies about Atlantis and its lethal death rays filled the afternoon hours: Captain Nemo found Atlantis; James Bond destroyed it in The Spy Who Loved Me. In the 19th century, supporters of the lost continent rioted in the streets for love of their idealized paradise. But all of these references were clearly framed in the realm of fiction. Atlantis Rising was the first book in paperback form to reach an audience who knew about Atlantis, but not nearly enough. A book that reach deep into the bag of mystery to give its readers a feel for the multiple and marvelous theories regarding the lost continent in what we tentatively refer to as the "real world". It took Brad Steiger's gift of making the arcane accessible to the unspecialized reader, supporting his texts with facts, figures and dates, to make the drowned continent emerge from its watery grave on paper. A reader who might have heard of Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World was now treated to the prophecies of Edgar Cayce, the underwater research of Dr. Manson Valentine, the possibility of Atlantis still surviving in our day and age as an undersea civilization responsible for UFO phenomena, and the possibility that certain mystics among us were in touch - through what later became known as "channeling" - with entities from the lost continent. No longer was Atlantis confined to the sword-and-sandal world of Harryhausen's Atlantis: The Lost Continent (and its convincing ray gun) but a place, or at least a concept, approached by these multiple theories. Particularly stunning was a chapter whose title still carries a distinctive ring in later years - "An Inner Earth Empire of Masters and Monsters." It is quite possible that to many readers, this was their first taste of the writings of Richard Shaver and theories involving the Elder Race and their descendants: the Apollonian Teros and the ins

Vintage, Wonderful, Steiger

Brad Steiger is one of a handful of writers in this difficult field who is able to keep a clear head, tell a great story, and inspire a person to think for him or herself. He has elegant common sense and is a man who writes very, very, well. Many people have borrowed his research and ideas and then written poor imitations of the original work. This is the real thing. If you haven't read this book yet, be sure to do so.