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G.P. Putnam's Sons [Published Date: 1969]. Hardcover, 320 pp. No other printings listed. Good in acceptable dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering and illustration on front and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's name in ink on half-title page. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears and creasing along edges. Moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. With 32 pages of photographs, plus maps, charts, and drawings [from jacket flaps] For 2,000 years Atlantis has tantalized the mind of man: Was it a myth or a memory? Did it exist and, if so, where? How and why did it disappear? Here, at last, is the full, firsthand account by the man who led the scientific expedition that found Atlantis and revealed the way it became "lost" - in the greatest single natural disaster witnessed by man - a cataclysm so great it has left its indelible impact on the myths and legends of several cultures.Plato's story of "lost" Atlantis baffled scientists, explorers, scholars, and historians for centuries, until the contemporary Greek scientist A. G. Galanopoulos announced his controversial theory that the volcanic Aegean island of Thera was the site of Atlantis - a theory verified by archaeological and geological evidence uncovered on the land and under the sea by two expeditions led by James W. Mavor. Every step of this dramatic, historic voyage - involving a worldwide array of experts, modern scientific equipment, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's research vessel Chain - is brilliantly recaptured in Mayor's book. An amateur in a field jealously guarded by professionals, James Mavor, by demonstrating the truth of what was thought to be only legend, has created a controversy of international proportions. Now his personal behind-the-headlines account of Atlantis discloses what discoveries were made and details the clash of personalities and the political and scientific rivalries that threaten future discoveries. Here, too, is fascinating evidence demonstrating the startling link between Atlantis and other ancient civilizations, the Greek myths, even the Bible.