Atlantis: The Truth Behind the Legend.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 216pp. Blue cloth with purple titling to light blue background and light blue illustration to upper board; pictorial maps to end papers; b&w and color illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. The author, a seismologist and geophysicist, uses scientific and archaeological evidence to demonstrate that Atlantis could not have existed in the Atlantic, and that in all likelyhood it is a mythologised version of a Minoan civilization in the Aegean, that was wiped out by a catastrophic volcanic explosion. Light rubbing and bumping to edges and corners. Otherwise, a tight and bright VG+ copy in VG dust jacket. (Dust jacket a little rubbed, a few small tears along edges.). Item #4898
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