"“The lively, skeptical but open-minded travel writer Mark Adams.takes readers along to four plausible sites, without quackery and with a contagious spirit of curiosity, interviewing scores of experts and fanatics, and painting pictures that will make even the most levelheaded traveler yearn to repeat his fantastic itinerary.
The result is a classic quest that takes readers to fascinating locations to meet irresistible characters and a deep, often humorous look at the human longing to rediscover a lost world. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.Meet Me in Atlantis: Across Three Continents in Search of the Legendary Sunken CityĪn entire global sub-culture of amateur explorers is actively and obsessively searching for the sunken city of Atlantis, based entirely on clues from the Greek philosopher Plato. In his bestseller Meet Me in Atlantis, Mark Adams racks up frequent-flier miles tracking down these obsessives, trying to determine why they believe it's possible to find the world's most famous lost city-and whether any of their theories could prove or disprove its existence. He lives near New York City with his family. He introduces the apparent controversy over a widely known famous personality, and then quickly goes about introducing a plan. His work appears in many national publications, including GQ, Rolling Stone, Outside and the New York Times. Mark Adams steps into the active role of field investigation of a hallmark tourist destination that calls to historians, followers of UFOs, New Age reinterpretionists, and Bucketlist adventurers. America, which The Washington Post named a Best Book of 2009, and the New York Times bestsellers Turn Right at Machu Picchu, which Men's Journal selected as one of the Fifty Greatest Adventure Books of All Time, and Meet Me in Atlantis. Mark Adams is the author of the acclaimed history Mr. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Written by journalist Mark Adams and published in 2011, it reflects on Hiram Bingham IIIs famous journey into the wilderness of Peru and supposed discovery of. His work appears in many national publications, including GQ, Rolling Stone, Outside and the New York Times.
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