Childress styles himself as a "rogue adventurer and maverick archaeologist."
The tone is generally speculative, suggesting that mainstream archeology is
suppressing critical facts.
| AncMicro |
Ancient Micronesia & the Lost City of Nan Madol (new trpb) By David Hatcher Childress
1998, Adventures Unlimited, 200pp, B+W illustrations throughout.
"Including Palau, Kosrae, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei & Guam."
Childress travels to the South Pacific to report on the mysteries there.
He focusses on the ancient ruins of Nan Madol on Pohnpei Island.
Here, giant basalt columns have been stacked high to form artificial
islands, and the main question is, how were they brought here?
"Intrepid adventurer and author David Hatcher Childress continues his world-wide
search for lost cities and ancient mysteries by voyaging to
Micronesia
where he investigates a sunken city. Discover with David the incredible city of
Nan Madol,
built into the ocean over an 11-square-mile area of man-made islands and containing
250 million tons of basalt columns. Local legends insist that the giant blocks of magnetic,
crystalline basalt were "magnetically levitated" into place by the islanders'
mysterious ancestors. With an extensive collection of old drawings, photos and maps,
this book brings alive the great empires of the ancient
Pacific.
Includes a 16-page color photo insert.
See also:
Pohnpei Island: USGS Topographic Maps
(3/3/99)
| $16.95
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| EasterIsland |
The Mystery of Easter Island (new trpb) By Katherine Routledge.
1919 (1998), Adventures Unlimited, 404pp.
Reprint of an early book describing
Easter Island
and a journey to it by sea in 1915.
About half of the book is about
Easter Island and the rest is about various
islands and exotic ports visited enroute. Written as a journal, it may capture for
the reader some of the early flavor of discovery, before Easter Island and every other
interesting place in the world became overrun with tourists. The writing is still
clear and relevant in spite of its age, and the famous Easter Island monoliths have
not changed since then.
"Katherine Routledge's classic archaeology book on Easter Island was first published in
London in 1919. Heavily illustrated with a wealth of old photos, this book is a treasury
of information on that most mysterious of islands.... In her journal, Routledge
provides one of the first-ever accounty of the life, history and folklore of this strange and
remote place. She and her companions explore the secret caves, ancient roads, pyramid
platforms and, of course, the strange stone statues on the island."
(3/4/99)
| $16.95
book1.5
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| OldSouthAmer |
Secret Cities of Old South America (new trpb) By Harold T. Wilkins.
1952 (1998), Adventures Unlimited, 468pp.
"The mysteries of South America are vividly recalled in this Adventures Unlimited reprint
of H.T. Wilkins' classic 1952 book on
South America
and Atlantis.
With a wealth of knowledge, the author explores the mystery of the Amazon
women warriers, lost cities, gigantic prehistoric animals, Atlantean ruins in the jungles
and ancient cataclysms of the past. Wilkins starts with the disappearance of Col.
Percy Fawcett, the British officer who vanished in the South American jungles
searching for a lost city, and then relates the amazing search for the last refuge of
the Incas -- a secret city hidden in the mountain jungles of Peru know as
Gran Paytiti...."
(3/18/99)
| $16.95
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| LostLemurain |
Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific (new trpb) By David Hatcher Childress.
1988, Adventures Unlimited, 367pp.
"Was there once a continent in the Pacific?
Called Lemuria or Pacifica by geologists, and Mu or Pan by the mystics,
there is now ample mythological, geological and archeological evidence to
"prove" that an advanced, and ancient civilization lived in the central Pacific.
Maverick archeologist and explorer David Hatcher Childress combs the Indian Ocean,
Australia and the Pacific in search of the astonishing truth about mankind's past."
(3/18/99)
| $14.95
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| LCSoAmer |
Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America (new trpb) By David Hatcher Childress (editor).
1986, Adventures Unlimited, 360pp, B+W illustrations throughout.
Peru
| Brazil
| Argentina
| Equador
| Chile
(6/28/99)
| $14.95
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| LCChina |
Lost Cities of China, Central Asia and India (new trpb) By David Hatcher Childress.
1991, Adventures Unlimited, 350pp, B+W illustrations throughout. Third edition.
China
| India
| Nepal
| Pakistan
| Iran
(6/28/99)
| $14.95
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