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Title: Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of Africa and Arabia (The Lost City Series) by David H. Childress ISBN: 0-932813-06-2 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: August, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of flavor, little facts...
Comment: Ok, let's get one thing out of the way. David Childress is not an archeologist. Some people seem to get hung up on this, so let's make that real clear. I always see his books in the "Travel Narrative" section of the bookstore, and that's exactly what they are... great travel narratives.
The books has two modes. Mr. Childress' travel stories, and his telling of "wacky" theories of the places he visits. Within the first 25 pages, you have stories of ancient nuclear weapons, flying machines, and continent spanning civilizations that no one has heard of! And he explains that this is the "easiest" way of rationalizing the things he has seen! (Such as, giant blocks of stone that are too big to move, "even by modern engineering").
On the whole, this is a great read if you want some insight into the crazy ideas that exist out there. Childress seems to have a mainline into most of them. His travel writing is pretty good too.
One note: the editing is terrible. Spelling and typos all over the place. The typography & layout of the book do leave something to be desired.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very interesting read
Comment: I picked up this book not realizing that I had already read excerpts from it in another of Childress' books. I was headed for Jordan and was interested in reading up on Petra when I found this book. As I read more, it began to get really interesting. His broad coverage of various theories of ancient civilizations is fascinating, if sometimes hard to believe. But, that being said, there are so many unexplained civilizations out there that, however fanciful the explanations may be, who knows, some may even be correct!! It's an entertaining read, and really causes you to reconsider some very basic historical facts that may turn out to be in error. How DID those guys at the Temple of Ba'al move 2 million pound stones?!? Makes you wonder!!
Rating: 2
Summary: Sublimely Goofy Entertainment
Comment: Let's face it: this isn't a very good book. Then again, "Godzilla vs. Monster Zero" wasn't a very "good" (if we must assign labels) movie. Childress, a "maverick archaeologist" who seems to spend most of his time floundering around grimly impoverished Third World locales and getting nowhere with evasive women at bars, provides an insanely amusing travelogue of his journeys through the jungles and exotic landscapes of Africa and Arabia, commenting along the way on the unknown Atlantean, Lemurian, and other civilizations that flourished once upon a time and were responsible for the Pyramids, THE MAHABHARATA, and presumably Jimmy Hoffa's and D.B. Cooper's whereabouts. The most insane thing about this book is that a lot of it might be true. So far as I know, we still know very little about the Neolithic era, and the concept of "lost" civilizations would imaginably appeal to many readers depressed at the state of the world (including myself). However, I must agree with the other negative reviewer that Childress offers no convincing evidence to support his theories (and not very much UNconvincing evidence, either). The only sources he uses are hopelessly mossbound Victorian "explorers" (who knows how many African bearers' lives they may have used up to supply this book with fodder for speculation?) who had their own "issues" to deal with. Don't even get me started on the possible cultural-studies implications of this book. That being said, it WAS a lot of fun, and he does occasionally come up with some exciting memories and fantastical theories that NEARLY make up for my having read this book.
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Title: Lost Cities of Atlantis Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean (Lost Cities Series) by David Hatcher Childress ISBN: 0932813259 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lost Cities of China, Central Asia and India (The Lost City Series) by David Hatcher Childress ISBN: 0932813070 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America (Lost Cities Series) by David Hatcher Childress ISBN: 093281302X Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific (The Lost City Series) by David Hatcher Childress ISBN: 0932813046 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Lost Cities of North & Central America (The Lost City Series) by David Hatcher Childress ISBN: 0932813097 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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