lost continents

Illustrations and text provide a lighthearted look at such legendary locations and structures as the Garden of Eden, Atlantis, the Tower of Babel, Ramses's tomb, King Arthur and his Round Table, and Dracula's castle.

Examines such archaeological remains as Stonehenge, the Easter Island statues, and the Minoan ruins on Crete and speculates about the vanished civilizations that built them.

Ex-naval doctor Peter Crane is summoned to investigate an illness plaguing workers on a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic, and arrives to find the problem really exists at a top-secret laboratory miles beneath the sea where scientists and government agents are excavating what could be the lost continent of Atlantis.

Explains how archeologists work together to try and find ancient civilizations and lost cities around the world.

Provides background information about lost cities and civilizations, presents the stories of Atlantis, El Dorado, and Camelot in graphic novel form, and includes a brief debate on whether such cities exist.

Dirk Pitt races to save the future of the world when he is assigned by the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency to find the link between the 1858 discovery of an aged wreck full of crates of antiquities, and two modern-day incidents that claimed the lives of a team of anthropologists and almost sank a NUMA vessel.