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A carregar... MAGICIANS OF THE GODS (edição 2017)por Graham Hancock (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Graham Hancock discusses new evidence for an ancient lost civilization and the disaster that led to its end. Better than I thought it would be. This new book does not re-hash information discussed in detail in previous books, but includes mostly new information with references to his old books if you need more detail. So even if you have read all his other book, read this one too. There is more information, especially of the reputed scientific variety, and almost no irrelevant personal travelogue stories. Not as "way out there" as most hypotheses. Large variety of illustrations, photo plates and references. NOTE: Another book that would go well together with this one is: [b:Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden|18223780|Gobekli Tepe Genesis of the Gods The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden|Andrew Collins|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1392657204s/18223780.jpg|25657558] Graham Hancock has the annoying habit of issuing updated, revised, and expanded editions of his books. There's an updated Fingerprints of the Gods (that is really hard-to-find and I think only published in Britain), an updated Underworld, and a totally re-written and updated Supernatural. Thus, if you are a completist, or want the best editions, you should get the paperback (except Supernatural, where you really need to get both). Anyway, in this updated, revised, and expanded edition of Magicians of the Gods there is an extra paragraph in the acknowledgements on Joe Rogan; a Part IX with two new chapters, and an Appendix II. (Hancock's editors really should be ashamed of themselves. In the original book, the sole appendix was called "Appendix I." Why call it "I" if there was no "II"? Here is the "Appendix II," finally. There are numerous copyediting errors in the two new chapters and appendix. Which is annoying. The superscript endnote numbers in "Appendix II" start with 54, continuing from Chapter 21 in the text, yet they start with 1 in the endnotes! Bad.) Anyway, my original review of the hardcover: Graham Hancock is a fringe writer. Or pseudoscience, or pseudo-history, if you're being mean. I would say speculative history or alternative history. But, it is a calumny to group Hancock together with cranks like David Hatcher Childress, Erich von Däniken, Scott Wolter, and the like. He is a better researcher, much more based in secular science, and a far better writer. There are things in this book that are a tad far-fetched, but there is a lot more that is close-fetched. Presented as a sequel to his 1995 Fingerprints of the Gods (ignoring, I guess, Underworld and Heaven's Mirror), Hancock presents evidence, again, for his theory that there was a rather advanced civilization that flourished before the last Ice Age, was destroyed, and survivors from this "Atlantis" (or whatever you want to call it) spread knowledge to the less-civilized remnants of mankind. Thus, like Fingerprints we have Oannes, Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, etc.' astronomically aligned megaliths and temples, etc., that point to a circa 10,000 BC apocalypse of some sort. In Fingerprints the civilization was in Antarctica and was swallowed by earth-crust displacement. Here he doesn't really say where the civilization may be (with hints it may be in North America or Indonesia), and he dropped earth-crust displacement for a cometary impact, the so-called Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. This places Hancock on more firm scientific ground, though many scientists still don't buy it. Nor will they sign on to the notion that comet impacts destroyed an advanced civilization. It is amazing how much his theories now resemble Ignatius Donnelly's theories (from Atlantis: The Antediluvian World and Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel). Since Fingerprints, archaeologists have discovered Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. A pre-historic (as in pre-writing) site that seems to be a religious cult center. Hancock spends an inordinate amount of time on Pillar 43, saying it is an early zodiac that focuses on the Younger Dryas era and our own 2012ish era. Why he hangs so much on one pillar I don't understand. Why not any of the other dozens of pillars? It's rather a lot to hang your hat on. I was disappointed, a little, in the slapdash appearance of the book. Why no running chapter heads? Why the numerous little errors? And, I love that Hancock has numerous endnotes, some with additional content. And, I admit I like he's old school and still uses ibid. and op. cit., etc. But, his citations are a mess. They could have used a nerd to make them all follow the same rules. Nice color photographs and some nice line images, though the halftone maps are hard to read and/or useless. These could have been done much better. It's like someone plotted some GIS info on a Google clone and hit the print button, thinking it would be a good map in a printed book. Overall, if you are willing to look into Hancock's speculations and you liked Fingerprints of the Gods, you will like this too. If you think Hancock is no better than the folks on Ancient Aliens, you will think it all is stupid. There is much to mentally chew on here and it is interesting, though it drags in a couple of places. Hancock, committed spiritual-secularist (i.e. anti-organized religion) never considers a biblical view of his evidence. I don't quite buy it all, but, it is interesting nevertheless. My review of the additional stuff in the updated, revised, and expanded paperback edition: Chapter 20 talks of additional evidence of Hancock's Younger Dryas era cataclysm in Australia, Indonesia, and India (with a long section on background of Hancock's previous book Underworld). He mentions, too, the Denisovans (a new catchall for lots of fringe theories on human development, evolution, etc.). Chapter 21 talks about theories of how comets could have struck the earth at periodic intervals. Interesting enough. Appendix II addressed something I noticed above, what happened to the earth-crust displacement theory in Fingerprints of the Gods? Here, Hancock says it hasn't quite been abandoned, just modified. Hapgood's method for initiating such crustal movement did not stand up to scrutiny, but perhaps a comet could kick start it. The Younger Dryas impact event? Decent enough additions. Either buy the paperback, if you like paperbacks, or get it super cheap if you want to complete the hardback. [Review of the paperback, updated, revised, and expanded, US edition.] Graham Hancock is a fringe writer. Or pseudoscience, or pseudo-history, if you're being mean. I would say speculative history or alternative history. But, it is a calumny to group Hancock together with cranks like David Hatcher Childress, Erich von Däniken, Scott Wolter, and the like. He is a better researcher, much more based in secular science, and a far better writer. There are things in this book that are a tad far-fetched, but there is a lot more that is close-fetched. Presented as a sequel to his 1995 Fingerprints of the Gods (ignoring, I guess, Underworld and Heaven's Mirror), Hancock presents evidence, again, for his theory that there was a rather advanced civilization that flourished before the last Ice Age, was destroyed, and survivors from this "Atlantis" (or whatever you want to call it) spread knowledge to the less-civilized remnants of mankind. Thus, like Fingerprints we have Oannes, Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, etc.' astronomically aligned megaliths and temples, etc., that point to a circa 10,000 BC apocalypse of some sort. In Fingerprints the civilization was in Antarctica and was swallowed by earth-crust displacement. Here he doesn't really say where the civilization may be (with hints it may be in North America or Indonesia), and he dropped earth-crust displacement for a cometary impact, the so-called Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. This places Hancock on more firm scientific ground, though many scientists still don't buy it. Nor will they sign on to the notion that comet impacts destroyed an advanced civilization. It is amazing how much his theories now resemble Ignatius Donnelly's theories (from Atlantis: The Antediluvian World and Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel). Since Fingerprints, archaeologists have discovered Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. A pre-historic (as in pre-writing) site that seems to be a religious cult center. Hancock spends an inordinate amount of time on Pillar 43, saying it is an early zodiac that focuses on the Younger Dryas era and our own 2012ish era. Why he hangs so much on one pillar I don't understand. Why not any of the other dozens of pillars? It's rather a lot to hang your hat on. I was disappointed, a little, in the slapdash appearance of the book. Why no running chapter heads? Why the numerous little errors? And, I love that Hancock has numerous endnotes, some with additional content. And, I admit I like he's old school and still uses ibid. and op. cit., etc. But, his citations are a mess. They could have used a nerd to make them all follow the same rules. Nice color photographs and some nice line images, though the halftone maps are hard to read and/or useless. These could have been done much better. It's like someone plotted some GIS info on a Google clone and hit the print button, thinking it would be a good map in a printed book. Overall, if you are willing to look into Hancock's speculations and you liked Fingerprints of the Gods, you will like this too. If you think Hancock is no better than the folks on Ancient Aliens, you will think it all is stupid. There is much to mentally chew on here and it is interesting, though it drags in a couple of places. Hancock, committed spiritual-secularist (i.e. anti-organized religion) never considers a biblical view of his evidence. I don't quite buy it all, but, it is interesting nevertheless. 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HTML: Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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