The Atlantis Myth

The original 1948 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.

H.S. Bellamy's The Atlantis Myth is a bold and idiosyncratic fusion of mythography, geology, and cosmic speculation. Building on Plato's dialogue and Ignatius Donnelly's 19th-century theories, Bellamy applies Hans Hoerbiger's "cosmogonic" model-where the moon was once an independent planet captured by Earth-to reinterpret the cataclysmic submergence of Atlantis as a real, astrophysical event. The book moves briskly from classical philology to speculative astronomy, arguing that ancient myths preserve memory of prehistoric celestial upheavals. Though framed in the academic tone of comparative mythology and geophysics, Bellamy's narrative is richly imaginative, turning what might have been dry theorizing into an almost novelistic reconstruction of the world before and after the "capture of Luna." The result is an eccentric but exhilarating study-half-scholarship, half-cosmic adventure-that invites readers to reconsider the boundary between legend and lost history.