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  Title

  Finding Atlantis : a true story of genius, madness and an extraordinary quest for a lost world

  Author

  King, David, 1970-  

  Publisher:

  Harmony Books,

  Pub date:

  c2005.

  Pages:

  x, 309 p. :

  ISBN:

  1400047528

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    GN751 .K56 2005	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  1400047528

  029:

  NLGGC 269325786

  Personal Author:

  King, David, 1970-

  Title:

  Finding Atlantis : a true story of genius, madness and an extraordinary quest for a lost world / David King.

  Publication info:

  New York : Harmony Books, c2005.

  Physical description:

  x, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

  Contents:

  Promises -- Oracle of the North -- Remarkable correspondences -- A Cartesian witch hunt -- Follow the fish! -- Gazing at the fac of Thor -- The quest for the golden fleece -- Mountains don't dance -- Twelve trumpets, four kettledrums and a bag of gold -- All oars to Atlantis -- Olympus stormed -- Hanging by a thread -- Et vos homines -- On nothing -- And then the snake thawed -- The Elysian fields.

  Summary:

  The untold story of a Renaissance man on an adventurous hunt for a lost civilization-an epic quest through castles, courts, mythologies, and the spectacular world of the imagination. What do the gods of Mount Olympus have in common with the gods of Valhalla? What do these, in turn, have to do with the pharaohs of Egypt, and the glories of fabled Atlantis? In 1679, Olof Rudbeck stunned the world with the answer: they could all be traced to an ancient lost civilization that once thrived in the far north of Rudbeck's native Sweden. He would spend the last thirty years of his life hunting for the evidence. 300 years later, his story appears in English for the first time, a narrative of discovery as well as a cautionary tale about the dangerous dance of genius and madness.--From publisher description.

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  Personal subject:

  Rudbeck, Olof, 1630-1702.

  Corporate subject:

  Atlantis.

  Subject term:

  Natural history--Sweden--17th century.

  Subject term:

  Civilization, Ancient.

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