{"id":17916,"date":"2012-07-29T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T06:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=17916"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:14:37","slug":"erskine-douglas-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/erskine-douglas-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Erskine, Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Douglas<\/strong><strong> Erskine<\/strong> was a pseudonym of the Canadian author John Stuart Buchan (1852-1927), not to be <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dolphins-Risge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27283\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dolphins-Risge-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dolphin's Risge\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dolphins-Risge-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dolphins-Risge.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>confused with the author John Buchan who wrote the ever-popular <em>The <\/em><em>39 Steps. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Erskine was the author of <em>A Bit of Atlantis <\/em>which although a novel, the author wrote an extensive 49-page Introduction that includes much of the Atlantis text written by Plato. He also follows <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly<\/a>\u2019s views regarding the location of Atlantis, which he situated on part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mid-atlantic-ridge\/\">Mid Atlantic Ridge<\/a>, which was then known as \u2018Dolphin\u2019s Ridge\u2019, incorporating the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azores<\/a>. Erskine\u2019s book, which can be read online<sup>(a)<\/sup>, includes Donnelly\u2019s map of Dolphin\u2019s Ridge.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/bitofatlantis00erskrich#page\/49\/mode\/1up\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/bitofatlantis00erskrich#page\/49\/mode\/1up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Erskine was a pseudonym of the Canadian author John Stuart Buchan (1852-1927), not to be confused with the author John Buchan who wrote the ever-popular The 39 Steps. Erskine was the author of A Bit of Atlantis which although a novel, the author wrote an extensive 49-page Introduction that includes much of the Atlantis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,1214,108,1213,18],"class_list":["post-17916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-azores","tag-dolphins-ridge","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-john-s-buchan","tag-mid-atlantic-ridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66289,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916\/revisions\/66289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}