| INTRODUCTION:THE QUEST BEGINSLate one evening in 1975 I sat by myself, lost in thoughtin Brown s Bar on North Bimini Island. It was a sultryJune night; the prevailing wind had died. Inside, underthe air-conditioning, Neville Brown tidied up the barwhile watching television. The bar was quiet becausemost of the island s visitors and the members of my ex-pedition were elsewhere on the island dancing to livenative music. How, I wondered, could an English pro-fessor like myself have gotten so far afield from Victo-rian literature as to pursue Atlantis as a seriousarchaeological possibility? It was one thing to teachPlato s myths to students of literature and quite an-other to contend seriously that these tales may have con-tanned some truths, that there may really have been anAtlantis. Obviously I believed the latter or I would not |
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