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The author of the sensational bestseller 1421 now reveals how the Minoan empire engaged in trans-Atlantic trade thousands of years before Columbus’s voyages—and that its violent destruction in 1,500 BC sparked the “lost” city of Atlantis legend

THE LOST EMPIRE OF ATLANTIS

History’s Greatest Mystery Revealed

by Gavin Menzies

“It takes a brave soul to rewrite history by sailing against current thought. More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ America, [Gavin Menzies] is doing just that, entering previously uncharted academic waters with claims that other ‘Europeans’ — the Minoans — got there first, thousands of years earlier.” —Wall Street Journal (2010)

The story of Atlantis, the legendary civilization described by Plato more than two thousand years ago, is one of the world’s most enduring mysteries. Was it a place of fiction, or did Atlantis really exist, and if so, where was it and what brought about its spectacular downfall?

In his new book, THE LOST EMPIRE OF ATLANTIS (William Morrow Hardcover; on-sale: 10/25/2011; $26.99; isbn: 9780062049483), Gavin Menzies reveals that Atlantis wasn’t just one island city but rather was a part of an entire empire, that of the Minoans. The extraordinary—but now largely forgotten—civilization of the Minoans, with its great palaces and sea ports based in Crete and nearby Thera (now called Santorini), had a level of sophistication that belied its place in the Bronze Age world. But never before has the full extent of the Minoans’ extraordinary reach been uncovered.

In 2008 historian Gavin Menzies launched himself on a quest that would reveal the truth behind the mystery of the Minoans and their destruction. Through an examination of exciting new documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, archaeological artifacts, and cutting-edge DNA evidence, Menzies and his team painstakingly uncovered a trading empire that spanned from the Mediterranean, to the Great Lakes in North America, to Kerala in India. And in doing so he finally explains the incredible reality behind the legendary civilization described by Plato, as well as its violent disappearance. Reading like a real-life Indiana Jones adventure, THE LOST EMPIRE OF ATLANTIS is epic, iconoclastic popular history with astonishing implications.

Some of Menzies’ fascinating findings:

• Located on the Greek island of Santorini, “Atlantis” was a central hub of the ancient Minoan civilization, a brilliant society that was only rediscovered in the 20th century

• The Minoans ruled a global trading empire that ranged from India to the Americas

• 3,000 years before Christopher Columbus “discovered” North America, the Minoans were mining and exporting copper (via the Mississippi) from a massive harbor whose remains can still be found on the shores of Lake Superior. Scientific methods of analysis now link the chemical composition of Minoan copper to the Americas.

• Around 1500 BC, a colossal volcanic eruption blew the heart out of present-day Santorini, producing a massive tsunami that destroyed Minoan cities throughout the Mediterranean. The location of Plato’s Atlantis was covered deep beneath the sea. This cataclysmic event gave rise to millennia of myth and speculation about Atlantis.

• Recently, the secret Minoan language Linear A has been decoded by Dr. Minas Tsikritsis. This revolutionary discovery now corroborates Gavin Menzies’s remarkable findings.

About the Author:

Gavin Menzies is the New York Times bestselling author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America and 1434: The Year China Ignited the Renaissance. His ideas have been profiled in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, and Wall Street Journal, and he has lectured at the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.), Royal Geographical Society (London), National Maritime Museum (London), and other prestigious venues. He served in the Royal Navy between 1953 and 1970. His knowledge of seafaring and navigation sparked his interest in the epic voyages of Chinese Admiral Zhang He, which he described in 1421 and 1434. Menzies lives in London, England.

About the Book:

THE LOST EMPIRE OF ATLANTIS, The Secret of History’s Most Enduring Mystery Revealed

By Gavin Menzies

Published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

On Sale Date: October 25, 2011

ISBN: 9780062049483; 400 Pages; $26.99

**B&W illustrations throughout, 2 8-page color inserts

**Also available in e-book format (ISBN: 9780062049513)

For more information about this and other HarperCollins books, please visit www.harpercollins.com.

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Secrets of the Ancient Past
At Last Declassified and Made Public
San Francisco, CA (August 1, 2011) –– Authored by a blockbuster slate of best-selling
authors, the new book Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Lost Civilizations and
Secrets of the Past is an unusual anthology of historical documentation and research on
lost civilizations. Avid fans of these popular experts are waiting for the December
release of this "must-have" collection of information and insight.
Long-time editors at New Page Books, a major publisher of titles related to unexplained
phenomena and ancient history, Michael Pye and Kirsten Dalley have assembled
fascinating original essays by some of the most prominent authorities on lost worlds:
? Philip Coppens: of the History Channel’s "Ancient Aliens" explores ancient
Celtic roads
? Erich von Daniken: million-selling author of Chariots of the Gods examines the
pyramids, their astronomical implications and the messages they convey
? Thomas G. Brophy, PhD: focuses on the mysterious Nabta Playa site and its
connection to African history
? Steven Sora: author of The Lost Colony, delves into Scotland’s Picts who
originated in North America and were connected to the ancient Micmac tribe
? Frank Joseph: author of Unearthing America covers archeological scandals
including the Smithsonian’s “loss” of Maya skulls
? Marie D. Jones & Larry Flaxman: authors of 11:11: The Time Prompt Phenomenon
write of how the ancients used sound to build megaliths and pyramids
? Oberon Zell-Ravenheart: brings together the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Life,
the great deluge, and the sinking of Lemuria
? Nick Redfern: author of The NASA Conspiracies and Contactees, reveals the U.S.
government’s interest in the past, religious mysteries, and mysterious artifacts


Page Two/Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past
Among the many questions answered and mysteries solved in this groundbreaking
book:
? Did Atlantis and Lemuria actually exist?
? Who built the pyramids, how did they do it and for what purpose?
? How advanced was the technology of ancient cultures?
Whether you are a believer, a skeptic or just curious, Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified:
Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past will keep you up at night.

About the editors:

Michael Pye has been an acquisitions editor at New Page Books for nearly a decade,
acquiring hundreds of books. He developed an appetite for the unexplained by
watching too many episodes of “In Search Of”, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, instead of
doing his homework, which turned him into a fan of the strange and unexplained. He
earned a BA in English from Southern Connecticut State University.
Kirsten Dalley has functioned in various editorial capacities at New Page Books since
2004. She is co-author of The Nightmare Encyclopedia, along with Jeff Belanger. She
graduated from Columbia University with a BA in comparative literature.



About the author

Frank Joseph is the editor in chief of Ancient American magazine and the author of Atlantis and 2012, The Destruction of Atlantis, The Lost Civilization of Lemuria, Survivors of Atlantis, and The Lost Treasure of King Juba. He lives in Minnesota.

http://www.oberonzell.com/

Biography of Oberon Zell-Ravenheart
Oberon Zell (born 11/30/42) has accomplished many things in his long and colorful career. A modern Renaissance man, Oberon is a transpersonal psychologist, metaphysician, naturalist, theologian, shaman, author, artist, sculptor, lecturer, teacher, and ordained Priest of the Earth-Mother, Gaia. Those who know him well consider him to be a true Wizard in the traditional sense. He is also an initiate in the Egyptian Church of the Eternal Source, a Priest in the Fellowship of Isis, and an initiate in several different Traditions of Witchcraft. He holds academic degrees in sociology, anthropology, clinical psychology, teaching, and theology.


 
On April 7, 1962, inspired by Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 science-fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, Oberon co-founded the Church of All Worlds. He has served as the Church’s Primate ever since. First to apply the terms “Pagan” and “Neo-Pagan” to the newly emerging Nature religions of the 1960s, and through his publication of the award-winning Pagan magazine, Green Egg (1968-1975; 1988-2000; 2007-), Oberon was instrumental in the coalescence of the Neo-Pagan movement, which for the past third of a century has been reclaiming the religious heritage of pre-Christian Europe. (Identified as the fastest-growing religion in the English-speaking world, US membership in the Pagan community is currently estimated in the millions.)

In 1970, Oberon formulated and published the thealogy of deep ecology which has become known as The Gaia Thesis—that our entire planetary biosphere comprises the body of a single vast living organism universally identified as “Mother Earth.” He met his soulmate, Morning Glory, at the Llewellyn-sponsored Gnostic Aquarian Festival in 1973, where he was a keynote speaker on the Gaia Thesis. They were legally married on April 14, 1974, in a spectacular Pagan handfasting in Minneapolis.

For eight years (1977-1985) Oberon and Morning Glory lived in a 5,600-acre intentional community called Greenfield Ranch, in the mountains of northern California, establishing a rural homestead and a Pagan retreat center. During this period they created large festivals, vision quests, ceremonies, and ritual events on the land. This work continues to this day on Annwfn.

Oberon and Morning Glory co-founded the Ecosophical Research Association in 1977, and their research into arcane lore and ancient legends resulted in the Living Unicorn project, begun in 1980. For the next four years they traveled all over North America exhibiting their authentic Medieval-style Unicorns at Renaissance Faires, before arranging a four-year exhibition contract with Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey Circus—“The Greatest Show on Earth”—which brought these legendary creatures to millions throughout the world.

In Feb. 1985, Oberon organized an ERA diving expedition to Australia and New Guinea which identified the species of the mysterious “Ri” and solved the ages-old mystery of the Mermaid; and in 1987 he conducted a research tour of ancient oracles and archaeological sites throughout Mediterranean Europe. Other magical journeys have taken Oberon to Peru, Hawaii, Alaska, back to Australia, and, in 1999, to the British Isles for the century’s last total Eclipse of the Sun.

Oberon is the author of numerous published articles on history, Gaian thealogy, magic, shamanism, mythology, anomalies, dinosaurs, archaeology, cosmology, and related topics, and has been interviewed and quoted extensively in many books on New Age religious movements and the occult. With many years of theatrical experience, Oberon has been an entertaining guest on a number of radio and television talk shows around the country (and in England, Canada and Australia), as well as being a regular featured speaker at various Pagan festivals and conventions. Oberon is also an accomplished ritualist, creating and conducting rites of passage, seasonal celebrations, Mystery initiations (such as the Eleusinia and the Panathenaia), Earth-healings and other rituals for up to 3,000 people.

Oberon’s artwork has illuminated the pages of various fantasy, science-fiction, and metaphysical magazines since the late 1960’s, as well as illustrating a number of books. His T-shirt designs may still be seen at any gathering of environmental activists. His favorite art project, however, is his ongoing sculpture series of ancient Gods and Goddesses, and of mythological creatures, currently marketed through TheaGenesis LLC, as the Mythic Images Collection. His masterwork is “The Millennial Gaia.”

Oberon and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart have had a special relationship with the Association for Consciousness Exploration for over 25 years, and between them they have appeared at over 20 Starwood Festivals (and a few WinterStar Symposiums). Largely because of their continuing participation, there has been a Church of All Worlds presence at Starwood, called the CAWmunity, for over a decade, and pivotal events in the saga of the C.A.W. have played themselves out on the stages of Starwood.

In 2002, Oberon gathered together many of the best-known minds in the Neo-Pagan movement to form the “Grey Council.” In 2004 Oberon and the Council published Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard, a book filled with the accumulated wisdom and insight of dozens of the most experienced magicians, priests, artists, and authors in Pagandom. Also in 2004, Oberon created his proudest accomplishment, the online Grey School of Wizardry (www.GreySchool.com). The Grey School currently offers over 300 classes in 16 Departments, at seven levels, with more than 750 students aged 11-75. The faculty number 40 highly-qualified teachers. Graduates are certified “Journeyman Wizards.” Oberon is the school’s Headmaster, and has been called “The real Albus Dumbledore.”

Oberon and Morning Glory currently reside in Sonoma County, California

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Nick Redfern works full?time as an author, lecturer and journalist. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, alien encounters, the worlds of the supernatural and the paranormal, and government conspiracies and cover?ups.
He is a regular contributor to UFO Magazine, Fate, Fortean Times, and Paranormal Magazine. He has also written for Military Illustrated, Eye?Spy, Penthouse and the British Daily Express, Western Daily Press and People newspapers. His previous books include Contactees; Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; Final Events; On the Trail of the Saucer Spies; Three Men Seeking Monsters; A Covert Agenda; The FBI Files; Cosmic Crashes; Celebrity Secrets; Body Snatchers in the Desert; Monsters of Texas; Science Fiction Secrets; There’s something in the Woods; Strange Secrets and NASA Conspiracies.
Nick has appeared on numerous television shows, including the BBC’s Out of this World; Britain’s Big Breakfast; History Channel’s Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle; Monster Quest and UFO Hunters; the National Geographic Channel’s Paranatural; MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann; and the SyFy Channel’s Proof Positive. He has also appeared on many occasions on Coast to Coast AM radio with George Noory.
His investigations have taken him to Puerto Rico in search of the blood?sucking Chupacabras; to Roswell, New Mexico on a quest for the truth behind the famous UFO crash of 1947; and to Wisconsin in pursuit of the infamous Mothman. Nick is the co?host, with Raven Meindel, of the weekly, paranormal?themed radio?show, Exploring All Realms. He writes a regular, weekly column for Mania.com on his investigations into mysterious creatures titled Lair of the Beasts.
Nick runs the American office of the British?based Center for Fortean Zoology, one of the very few full?time groups in the world dedicated to the investigation of such unknown animals as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Chupacabras, sea?serpents, and the Abominable Snowman. Originally from England, Nick Redfern lives in Arlington, Texas with his wife, Dana. He can be contacted at nickredfern.com.
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Secrets of the Ancient Past
At Last Declassified and Made Public
San Francisco, CA (August 1, 2011) –– Authored by a blockbuster slate of best-selling
authors, the new book Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Lost Civilizations and
Secrets of the Past is an unusual anthology of historical documentation and research on
lost civilizations. Avid fans of these popular experts are waiting for the December
release of this "must-have" collection of information and insight.
Long-time editors at New Page Books, a major publisher of titles related to unexplained
phenomena and ancient history, Michael Pye and Kirsten Dalley have assembled
fascinating original essays by some of the most prominent authorities on lost worlds:
? Philip Coppens: of the History Channel’s "Ancient Aliens" explores ancient
Celtic roads
? Erich von Daniken: million-selling author of Chariots of the Gods examines the
pyramids, their astronomical implications and the messages they convey
? Thomas G. Brophy, PhD: focuses on the mysterious Nabta Playa site and its
connection to African history
? Steven Sora: author of The Lost Colony, delves into Scotland’s Picts who
originated in North America and were connected to the ancient Micmac tribe
? Frank Joseph: author of Unearthing America covers archeological scandals
including the Smithsonian’s “loss” of Maya skulls
? Marie D. Jones & Larry Flaxman: authors of 11:11: The Time Prompt Phenomenon
write of how the ancients used sound to build megaliths and pyramids
? Oberon Zell-Ravenheart: brings together the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Life,
the great deluge, and the sinking of Lemuria
? Nick Redfern: author of The NASA Conspiracies and Contactees, reveals the U.S.
government’s interest in the past, religious mysteries, and mysterious artifacts

Among the many questions answered and mysteries solved in this groundbreaking
book:
? Did Atlantis and Lemuria actually exist?
? Who built the pyramids, how did they do it and for what purpose?
? How advanced was the technology of ancient cultures?
Whether you are a believer, a skeptic or just curious, Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified:
Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past will keep you up at night.
About the editors:
Michael Pye has been an acquisitions editor at New Page Books for nearly a decade,
acquiring hundreds of books. He developed an appetite for the unexplained by
watching too many episodes of “In Search Of”, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, instead of
doing his homework, which turned him into a fan of the strange and unexplained. He
earned a BA in English from Southern Connecticut State University.
Kirsten Dalley has functioned in various editorial capacities at New Page Books since
2004. She is co-author of The Nightmare Encyclopedia, along with Jeff Belanger. She
graduated from Columbia University with a BA in comparative literature.



The Notorious Nick Redfern
Opens the Doors of Top Secret
Facilities Around the World
San Francisco, CA (December 15, 2011) –– Best?selling author, lecturer, and journalist Nick Redfern is world?famous for ripping the lid off unsolved mysteries and conspiracy theories. His latest book, Keep Out! Top Secret Places Governments Don?t Want You to Know About, is guaranteed to rock his avid fans.
From Area 51 to Hangar 18, the Montauk facility and the Dulce Base to HAARP in Alaska, Fort Detrick, the Zhitkur underground realm and more, highly classified installations around the world are off?limits to the general public. The governments of the United States, Australia, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and others say, “Keep Out!”
Redfern has opened up secret facilities that for decades have reportedly been the sites of crashed UFOs, deceased aliens beings, bizarre animals, lethal viruses, biological warfare, mind?control experimentation, and much more.
His explorations and research have taken him deep into the oceans, below ground and to remote desert fortifications where super secret sites are guarded with a near?paranoid zeal by those are keeping them locked far away from prying eyes––until now.
Redfern’s Keep Out! answers these and many more hair?raising questions:
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In 1980, did science?fiction?like events occur in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, adjacent to the British Royal Air Force/U.S.A.F. complex of Bentwaters?Woodbridge?
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Did biological warfare research at Fort Detrick involve a lethal virus of alien origins?
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Pine Gap is the only locale in Australia over which it is illegal to fly. Is this the beginning of an Orwellian?style society Down Under?


Are deep caves being secretly transformed into shelters for the ruling elite, in case of dramatic catastrophe?
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At the Smithsonian, do hidden chambers house ancient anomalies from the distant past? the Ark?
A regular contributor to UFO Magazine, Fate, Fortean Times and Paranormal Magazine, Nick Redfern is the author of:

The NASA Conspiracies

Contactees: A History of Alien?human Interaction

Memoirs of a Monster Hunter: A Five?Year Journey in Search of the Unknown

Science Fiction Secrets: from Government Files and the Paranormal
? Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich and Famous

There’s Something in the Woods
A popular and lively interviewee and media guest, Redfern has appeared on dozens of radio and TV shows, including:

BBC’s “Out of this World”

History Channel’s “Monster Quest and UFO Hunters”

National Geographic Channel’s “Paranatural”

SyFy Channel’s “Proof Positive”




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Born in 1962 in Bremerton, Washington State, USA, John Michael Greer was raised in a nonreligious family but developed an intense interest in spirituality, mythology, and esoteric traditions in childhood. He began studying the Golden Dawn tradition of Hermetic magic in his teens, and followed the "golden thread" of esoteric teachings into a wide range of related subjects, from martial arts and Asian mystical traditions to environmental science and sacred geometry, in the years that followed.

He attended college at Western Washington University (1980-1983) and the University of Washington (1991-1993), graduating from the latter magna cum laude in 1993 with a BA in Comparative History of Ideas. In the interval between his college years he married and worked at a variety of jobs while developing his skills as a writer. His first published book, Paths of Wisdom, a handbook of Golden Dawn cabalistic philosophy, was released by Llewellyn in 1996, and has been followed by eight other books to date.

Dissatisfaction with some aspects of the Golden Dawn system, especially its lack of contact with the realities of green nature, led him to Druidry. In 1995 he joined the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids (OBOD) began its correspondence study program, and progressed through the three degrees of Bard, Ovate and Druid, receiving his certificate as a Druid Companion of the Order in 2002. In 2003 he was honored with OBOD's Mount Haemus Award for Druid scholarship. In 2001 he also joined the Druid fellowship Ar nDraiocht Fein (ADF). He remains active in both these organizations.

His journey to the northern chair, the seat of the Grand Archdruid in the Ancient Order of Druids in America, was made complex by the Order's own difficulties during and after the resignation of Grand Archdruid Robert Johnson in 1998. Unbeknownst to him, his first attempt to contact AODA - after reading about it in a reference book, and finding its traditional Druid Revival approach intensely appealing - was made during the middle of this crisis and went nowhere. He finally succeeded in making contact with one of the Order's Archdruids in 2001, only to find the Order inactive. In 2003, after a series of discussions about AODA's potentials, he was brought into the Grand Grove as Archdruid of the East. On December 21, 2003, on the resignation of Grand Archdruid Betty Jean McCloud Reeves due to ill health, he moved to the North as the seventh Grand Archdruid of AODA.

He currently lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife Sara, an herbalist, musician, and writer who serves as Almoner of AODA and is also active elsewhere in the contemporary Druid movement. 

John Michael Greer's published and forthcoming books include:

Paths of Wisdom: Cabala in the Western Tradition (Llewellyn, 1996)
Circles of Power: Ritual Magic in the Western Tradition (Llewellyn, 1997)
Inside A Magical Lodge (Llewellyn, 1998)
Earth Divination, Earth Magic: A Practical Guide to Geomancy (Llewellyn, 1999)
Natural Magic (Llewellyn, 2000; reprinted as The Encyclopedia of Natural Magic, 2005)
Monsters (Llewellyn, 2001)
The New Encyclopedia of the Occult (Llewellyn, 2003)
Learning High Magic, with Carl Hood Jr. and Clare Vaughn (Weiser, 2004)
A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism (ADF Press, 2005)
The Academy of the Sword by Gerard Thibault (translation; Chivalry Bookshelf, 2005)
Druidry: A Green Way of Wisdom (Weiser, 2006)
The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies (Element, 2006)