num_pages: 307
description: The New York Times Bestseller! The author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu travels the globe in search of the worlds most famous lost city. Adventurous inquisitive and mirthful Mark Adams gamely sifts through the eons of rumor science and lore to find a place that in the end seems startlingly real indeed.Hampton SidesA few years ago Mark Adams made a strange Far from alien conspiracy theories and other pop culture myths everything we know about the legendary lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man the Greek philosopher Plato. Stranger Adams learned there is an entire global sub-culture of amateur explorers who are still actively and obsessively searching for this sunken city based entirely on Platos detailed clues. What Adams didnt realize was that Atlantis is kind of like a virusand hed been exposed. In Meet Me in Atlantis  Adams racks up frequent-flier miles tracking down these Atlantis obsessives trying to determine why they believe it's possible to find the world's most famous lost cityand whether any of their theories could prove or disprove its existence. 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.
language: English
title: Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City
publisher: Dutton