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02767aam a2200301 i 4500 001 F728962EBCE111EEA22CC97A4BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240127010046 008 240122s2024 wauab b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1627311475 020 $a 9781627311472 035 $a (OCoLC)1418719958 040 $a NFG $b eng $c NFG $d IWP $d SILO 100 1 $a McHenry, Justin. 245 00 $a Lemuria : $b a true story of a fake place / $c Justin McHenry. 260 $a Port Townsend, WA : $b Feral House, $c 2024 300 $a 196 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. One of hopes and dreams that housed a race of beings that arrived from foreign planets and from sprang humanity, religion, civilization, and our modern world. It was called Lemuria and it was all fake. What began as a theoretical land bridge to explain the mystery of lemurs on Madagascar quickly got hijacked to become the evolutionary home of humankind, the cradle of spirituality, and then the source of cosmological wonders. Abandoned by science as hokum, Lemuria morphed into a land filled with ancient, advanced civilizations, hollowed-out mountains full of gold and crystals, moon-beings descending in baskets, underground evil creatures, and a breast-feeding Bigfoot. The history of Lemuria is populated with a dizzying array of people from early Darwinists to conspiracy spouting Congressmen, globetrotting madams, Rosicrucians, Hollow-Earthers, sci-fi writers, UFO contactees, sleeping prophets, New Age channelers, a "Mother God", and a tequila swigging conspiracy theorist. Historian Justin McHenry provides a thoughtful exploration of how pseudo-science hijacked the gentle Victorian-era concept of Lemuria and, in following decades, twisted it into an all-encompassing home for alternative ideas about race, spirituality, science, politics, and the paranormal. Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place is a fascinating history of a land that doesn't exist. McHenry takes us on a journey explaining how this strange theory materialized, from the rainforests of Madagascar to Madame Blavatsky's drawing room to the hidden city in Mount Shasta and a plunge into the depths of 4chan. It's a wild ride! 630 00 $a History and philosophy of science. 650 0 $a Geographical myths. 650 0 $a Lost continents. 650 0 $a Lemuria. 650 0 $a Religion and science. 941 $a 1 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127012802.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F728962EBCE111EEA22CC97A4BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search