{"id":2603,"date":"2010-06-02T08:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-in-america\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:33:07","slug":"atlantis-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>tlantis<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>in<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>merica <\/em><\/strong><strong>[<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\"><strong>256<\/strong><\/a><strong>]<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spence-james-lewis-thomas-chalmers\/\">Lewis Spence<\/a> is one of five books on Atlantis written by Spence. In spite of the title, Spence believed that Atlantis was situated on a large <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/continent\/\">continent<\/a> that is now submerged, which stretched across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34206\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis_in_America-spence-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34206\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34206\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis_in_America-spence-cover-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis_in_America-spence-cover-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis_in_America-spence-cover.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The idea of Atlantis as either a landbridge or a stepping-stone between the Old and New Worlds was popular for a period at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, but then faded as our knowledge of the geology of the Atlantic seabed grew.<\/p>\n<p>This is a highly speculative book that compares various Native American myths that Spence believed pointed to a common cultural source\u00a0he identified as Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>Spence was convinced that the influence of Atlantis is equally evident in western Europe. In an article in the <em>O<\/em><em>ccult<\/em><em> R<\/em><em>eview <\/em>(1926) Spence voiced his view that Atlantis was located near <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/britain\/\">Britain<\/a>. This book, although somewhat dated has been reprinted (Kessinger, 1997) and is of interest to students of the development of Atlantis theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis in America [256] by Lewis Spence is one of five books on Atlantis written by Spence. In spite of the title, Spence believed that Atlantis was situated on a large continent that is now submerged, which stretched across the Atlantic. The idea of Atlantis as either a landbridge or a stepping-stone between the Old [&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":[290,816,49,312,78,5153],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-britain","tag-continent","tag-geology","tag-landbridge","tag-lewis-spence","tag-occult-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65531,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/65531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}