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5 Stars for Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization (audiobook) by Graham Hancock read by Dennis Kleinman. I’m just fascinated by this subject. Graham Hancock does an amazing job researching early civilizations. This book is a really in-depth look into all the research he has done over se Leggi tutto

An enormous and fantastic early book of Hancock’s path towards proving the existence of lost civilizations. This one was written in the late 90s and very early 2000s, pre 9/11, and its leisurely pace differs from his latter books. I don’t know whether to attribute this to the different mindset prese Leggi tutto

This hefty tome describes Hancock's search for archaeological evidence of human civilizations prior to the rise of Sumer and Egypt. Describing contemporary understandings of geography consequent upon changing climate, his focus is on lands submerged since the last global ice age maximum. This takes

If this book has taught me only one thing, it’s that no one throws shade like an author forced to put up with scientists and their egos. But in all seriousness, a truly fascinating look into humanity’s lost history.

I'm going to call this one done. I skimmed massive portions of the last 30% of this book, but I don't honestly think I'm missing out on anything here. Unlike the previous three books of his I've read ( Fingerprints of the Gods , America Before , and Supernatural ), this book felt incredibly different in Leggi tutto

This was a lot more boring than I was expecting. I enjoy what I shelve as "weird shit"--stuff like this, where they are basically historical conspiracy theories. But this involved a lot more specific math and general details (how a diving suit works in horrific detail, for instance) than a lot of ot Leggi tutto

An entertaining book. I like the idea that there was a world wide civilization that was the source of the flood myth that seem to be common among different cultures. It makes sense that human beings sailed and settled all over the world in the past 20,000 years and mapped it and observed the stars.