A leading authority examines the facts and fancies behind the Atlantis theme in history, science, and literature. Sources include the classical works from which Plato drew his proposal of the existence of an island continent, Sir Thomas More's Utopia, the Lemurian Continent theory, K. T. Frost's equation of Atlantis with Crete, and many other citations of Atlantis in both famous and lesser-known literature. Related legends are also recounted and refuted, and reports include accounts of actual expeditions searching for the sunken continent and attempts to prove its existence through comparative anatomy and zoology.

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Preface
I. THE STORY OF ATLANTIS
II. THE RESURGENCE OF ATLANTIS
III. THE LAND OF THE LEMURS
IV. THE HUNTING OF THE COGNATE
V. THE MAYAN MYSTERIES
VI. WELSH AND OTHER INDIANS
VII. THE CREEPING CONTINENTS
VIII. THE SILVERY KINGDOM
IX. THE AUTHOR OF ATLANTIS
X. THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
XI. EVENING ISLES FANTASTICAL
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX