| In Quest of Lost Worlds Contributor(s): De Prorok, Byron Khun (Author) |
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ISBN: 0932813569 ISBN-13: 9780932813565 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 910 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.1" W x 8.98" (1.14 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The reprint of Count Byron de Prorok's classic archaeology/adventure book first published in 1936 by E P Dutton and Co. in New York. In this exciting and well illustrated book, de Prorok takes us into the deep Sahara of forbidden Algeria to the Queen of the Tuaregs and many prehistoric ruins. Then he on to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and then to Ethiopia. De Prorok continues on to Mexico and the remote jungles of Chiapas to discover a lost Mayan tribe and a lost city and a search for King Solomon's mines in Ethiopia Great reading, history and adventure Includes: Tin Hinan, Legendary Queen of the Tuaregs; The mysterious A'Haggar Range of southern Algeria, Jupiter, Ammon and Tripolitania; The 'Talking Dune'; The Land of the Garamantes; Mexico and the Poison Trail; Seeking Atlantis Shadowed by the 'Little People' Ancient Pyramids of the Usamasinta and Piedras Negras in Guatemala; In Search of King Solomon's Mines and the Land of Ophir; Ancient Emerald Mines of Ethiopia. Also includes 24 pages of special illustrations of the famous Search For the Tassili Frescoes by Henri Lhote (1959). A visual treat Of a remote area of the world that is even today forbidden to outsider |