The World Atlas of Mysteries / Francis Hitching

Atlas misterija

London, Velika Britanija 1979. Mek povez, ilustrovano, veliki format (29 cm), engleski jezik, 256 strana.  
Knjiga je veoma dobro / odlično očuvana.  

From the origins of the universe and terrestrial life, through the unique development of the human mind, to the secrets of ancient civilisations and bizarre phenomena in the sky and beyond. . . the enormous scope of this encyclopedia of the unexplained makes it a uniquely fascinating book, massively researched, illustrated with photographs, maps and diagrams and written by the author of
Earth Magic — one of our leading authorities on the strange and enigmatic body of facts that will not fit.

WHAT CATASTROPHE DESTROYED THE Dinosaurs?  
WHAT IS A DRAGON?  
IS GREAT PYRAMID THE CENTRE OF THE    WORLD?
IS  AN UNKNOWN ENERGY IN UNDERGROUND WATER?
WHERE WAS ATLANTIS?
WHERE WERE KING SOLOMON'S MINES?
DID VENUS NEARLY COLLIDE WITH EARTH?
ARE THERE STILL UNDISCOVERED MONSTERS?

'Starting at the dawn of life and moving on through the origins of man  to the first appearance of the urban civilisations, he points to massive discontinuities in the stream of scientific knowledge and shows that omcial explanations are often more complicated and confrived than unconventional ones. Here then is real mystery. . . a book of absorbing interest to anyone who believes that there are more things in heaven and earth than science will recognise' 
DR KIT PEDLER- creator of DOOMWATCH - in the EVENNG NEWS
 

Sadržaj:
General introduction 
Acknowledgements 
SECTION ONE: THE UNSTABLE UNIVERSE 
Death of the dinosaurs 
Continents on the move 
Magnetism and life 
Spontaneous human combustion 
Balls of fire 
The Venus effect 
Velikovsky's predictions 
SECTION TWO: THE EMERGENCE OF MAN 
The missing links 
Neanderthal inheritance 
The racial question 
Hominid survival 
The vanished mammoths 
SECTION THREE: EARTH PATTERNS 
Crystalline planet 
Megalithic engineering 
Pyramid placing 
Patterns in Peru 
Alignments and connections 
SECTION FOUR: UNKNOWN ENERGIES 
Remote viewing 
The migration instinct 
Underground streams 
Feng-shui 
SECTION FIVE: LOST ACHIEVEMENTS 
The gravity enigma 
Early astronomers 
Gulliver's moons 
Early navigators 
Early cartographers 
Who discovered America?  
Ancient anomalies 
Undeciphered writing 
SECTION SIX: BEFORE CIVILIZATION 
Atlantis solved?  
Bimini revealed 1
The outer space confusion 
Amphibians from Sirius 
SECTION SEVEN: MYTHS AND LEGENDS
Patterns of life
What is a dragon?  
The Deluge 
Noah's ark 
Old Testament truths 
Who was Homer?  
Sacred relics 
SECTION EIGHT AERIAL PHENOMENA 
Meteor bombardment 
Siberian space disaster 
Hard-core UFOs 
Ice blocks from the sky 
Creature storms 
SECTION NINE: APPEARANCES AND DISAPPEARANCES 
Underwater monsters 
Unknown beasts 
Wild children 
Kaspar Hauser 
Count St Germain 
Mary Celeste 
Bermuda Triangle 
Vanishing people 
SECTION TEN: SEARCHES 
King Solomon's mines 
The Holy Grail 
Knights Templar 
El Dorado 
Shangri-La 
SOURCES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 
Index 
Illustration acknowledgements