Atlantis did not sink. It was written. Mu began as a misreading with a date attached. Lemuria was a reasonable
zoogeographical hypothesis, published in 1864, that was carried somewhere it
should never have gone. Agartha has four links and fifty-four years between
its first author and the legend we know today.
This is the second volume of the Ordo Atlas Archives, and it changes method.
Where the previous volume measured stone, this one follows paper: who wrote
what, when, citing whom - and what they added on their own.
Eleven entries, from the oldest account to the nautical charts that recorded
islands which never existed, and to the cities that do exist and were called
lost anyway. Each one separates three layers that usually arrive tangled
together: what is established, what specialists genuinely dispute, and what
the archive records - which is fiction, and is marked as such.
The authors are real. The works, the editions and the pages are real, and are
listed at the end of the book. The order that catalogued them is not.
A volume about how a lost city is produced: not by geology, but by a document
- and then by an archive that decides where to file it.
