psychoceramics: Lost Continent Kooks

[Bruce Ediger <bediger @ csn.net>]

Cosma Shalizi <s--@p---next9.physics.wisc.edu> writes:
: And then of course there's the guy in the last century who thought some of the
: Mayan characters looked like elephant heads, and wrote a long book about
: the conquest of the Americas by the Mongols.  (Details forgotten, read it in
: L. Sprague de Camp's _Lost Continents_, a book no psychoceramicist's
: library should be without.)

Ah, Lost Continents, a fertile field indeed.  Who/what you describe sounds
like Colonel James Churchward, author of "The Lost Continent of Mu", and
at least 6 or 7 other books with "Mu" in the title.  Churchward's books
were reprinted in paperback in the early 70s, but I haven't seen them
on the shelves for a while, so they may be out of print.

If you can find "The Lost Continent of Mu", it's worth a read.  Think of
it as Bad Science Fiction: you'll have a better time than if you think of
it as merely Bad Science.