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to Hapgood, the mapmakers responsible for the earliest maps must in some ways have been more technically advanced than sixteenth-century Europe and the ancient civilisations of Greece, Egypt and Babylonia. Not only did they produce fantastically detailed maps, they also appear to have to have mapped every continent. The Americas were mapped thousands of years before Columbus and Antarctica was mapped when its coasts were free of ice. From the evidence it seems that these people must have lived when the ice age had not yet ended in the Northern Hemisphere and when Alaska was still connected to Siberia by the Pleistocene, ice age "land bridge", that is, thousands of years before the heyday of the ancient Egyptians. This is quite a claim to make but the evidence contained with this work is very detailed and convincing.

The book is not the easiest to follow in that the flow of information is broken up by a fair amount of cartographical and mathematical information, but a little perseverance is well rewarded. The theory before you, if it is believed, is one that questions our whole understanding of the formation of the modern world. It hints at a longer development period for the rise of man, and even suggests that there is a whole age of early civilization that came and went with out leaving much of an entry in the history books, as we understand them today. The book is clever enough to stop short of making too many sweeping and radical statements about the rise of civilization; if it does it at all it does so by inference only. Hapgood limits his theory to the facts and lets us make our own minds as to what that actually means, but the conclusions that you will draw will be literally world shaking.

For any historians interested in cartography, cartographers interested in history or followers of the forbidden aspects of archaeology, this book will make you view the pre-historic world with new eyes. Prepare to be confronted with a historical bombshell also to walk away with more questions than you had before diving into its pages, but then it's a well-known fact that there are more questions than answers.

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