The Book Depository Underworld by Graham Hancock
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Description: Underworld : Paperback : Crown Publishing Group (NY) : 9781400049516 : 1400049512 : 28 Oct 2003 : From the bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods comes a fascinating underwater search for proof that ancient civilizations long-regarded as myth actually did exist. The Book Depository Underworld by Graham Hancock - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781400049516
MPN: 1400049512
GTIN: 9781400049516
Author: Namatassa
Rating: 5
Review: This is a phenomenal work. The book arrived quickly and is in excellent condition. Very impressed and a great price. Hancock followed Fingerprints of the Gods with Underworld, employing the same marriage of science and the self evident to wonder what lies under the world's coastlines. Its indisputable that sea levels have risen x hundred feet since the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago. Yet there seems to be no real effort to develop an understanding of what civilizations existed before this time and the contributions made. Clearly, from the mythological to the geological to the architectural, there is evidence of a proto civilization in the archetype of human legends and collective memory. Sadly, there also appears to be an amnesia masking this wellspring. Building on the recent finds throughout the world, predicted in Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock fits yet another puzzle piece into the enigma of civilization- its appearing simultaneously throughout the world with alphabet, language, agriculture, medicine, science, astronomy, architecture, and highly evolved cosmologies. Hancock, like the authors of Hamlet's Mill, weave these narratives into the 'facts on the ground' (or in this case, under water). Hancock's premise requires: proof of an ancient proto civilization- done. proof of a specific period and cataclysm- done. Connecting the disparate links into a plausible, verifiable theory- done! Now if science would stop spending its energies shoring up the redoubts of their pet civilization framework, they could explore previously unconsidered aspects. Note: The current framework is based on a linear Darwinian evolution of both Man and civilization. It basically posits that Man became civilized roughly 5-7,000 years ago. The efforts to reinforce this framework, I believe, is based on the false logic that granting civilization is older effectively destroys Darwinism or otherwise empowers creationism. Both elements would hardly be the case. See Graham Hanock's latest work, Magicians of the Gods, where the aspect of who this proto civilization was is developed further. Charles Hapgood would have been proud.
Author: charles frost
Rating: 3
Review: The book is excellent. Delivery was very slow. Took weeks. Not sue I would buy from this supplier again.
