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From Atlantis to the Sphinx

From Atlantis to the Sphinx( )
Author: Wilson, Colin
ISBN:978-1-57863-306-7
Publication Date:Jul 2004
Publisher:Red Wheel/Weiser
Imprint:Weiser Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $22.95USD $24.95
Book Description:

In this compelling book, Colin Wilson argues that thousands of years before ancient Egypt and Greece held sway, there was a great civilization whose ships traveled the world from China to Antarctica. Their advanced knowledge of science, mathematics, and astronomy was passed on to descendants who escaped to Egypt and South America. From Atlantis to the Sphinx bases this assertion on a true fact: that archaeologists and geologists are at odds over the age of the Sphinx....
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: History / Ancient / General
Reference / Curiosities & Wonders
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.06 Inches
Book Weight:1.04 Pounds
Author Biography
Wilson, Colin (Author)
Colin Wilson was born on June 26, 1931 in Leicester, England. He attended a local technical school, where he did well in physics and chemistry, and left at 16 to work in a wool factory. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a laboratory assistant, tax clerk, laborer and hospital porter.

His first book, The Outsider, was published in 1956 when he was 24 years old. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 works on a wide variety of subjects including philosophy, religion, occult and supernatural phenomenea, music, sex, crime and critical theory. His other works include Religion and the Rebel, The Age of Defeat, Ritual in the Dark, The Strength to Dream, Origins of the Sexual Impulse, The Occult, Alien Dawn, Dreaming to Some Purpose, The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men, and Super Consciousness. His biographies include works on Bernard Shaw, David Lindsay, Herman Hesse, Wilhelm Reich, Jorge Luis Borges, Ken Russell, Rudolph Steiner, Aleister Crowley, and P. D. Ouspensky. Wilson died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 82.

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