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This is the book’s own stage: the narrator stands on the stage and reads Donnelly’s 1882 book aloud in Lessac’s voice — Plato’s own telling first, then the History of Atlantis and the Deluge — while Donnelly’s own maps cross behind him. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- Plato first, whole: the Atlantis telling of the Timaeus and the whole of the Critias, in Benjamin Jowett’s translation — the Critias breaks off mid-sentence, exactly as Plato left it, and you will hear it exactly as he left it.
- Donnelly’s Parts I and II complete: Part I, The History of Atlantis — his propositions, Plato’s history, the testimony of the sea and of the flora and fauna; Part II, The Deluge — the destruction of Atlantis as it echoes through the Flood legends of the Bible, the Chaldeans, and the nations of both worlds.
- About 4 hours 40 minutes of narration — Lessac reads the book aloud in English, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, while the narrator stands talking on the stage.
- Donnelly’s own maps — the Profile of Atlantis, the deep-sea sounding charts, and the Empire of Atlantis stand whole in the gallery; Kircher’s 1665 map of Atlantis is shown separately and labeled as context, not Donnelly’s.
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These are the public-domain texts: Plato’s Timaeus and Critias in Benjamin Jowett’s translation, and Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (Harper & Brothers, 1882), presented as a talking hologram book. An honest word, printed on this book’s face as it is in its disclaimer: the words are the dead men’s own — nothing added, nothing taken away. What Donnelly argues is what he believed; his claims are presented as he made them, not as proven fact — the weighing of them is left to you, the reader. The Bermuda Triangle, which came along in the 1960s, is not in this book and is no part of Donnelly’s account. The narration is a synthesized English reading (Piper — Lessac) of this text, made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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