{"id":2653,"date":"2010-06-03T08:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T08:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-the-autobiography-of-a-search\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:37:26","slug":"atlantis-the-autobiography-of-a-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-the-autobiography-of-a-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis: The Autobiography of a Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>tlantis:<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> T<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>he<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>utobiography of a<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> S<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>earch<\/em><\/strong> <strong>[<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\"><strong>594<\/strong><\/a><strong>]<\/strong> two young writers Robert Ferro and his partner Michael Grumley. Most of their output was fiction but they collaborated on this non-fiction book in the late 1960s. Unfortunately, it does little to advance the search for Atlantis. Apparently, inspired by the writings of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cayce-edgar\/\">Edgar Cayce<\/a>, they descended on Bimini in 1968 and began exploring the shallow seas there and where they encountered Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/valentine-manson\/\">Manson Valentine<\/a> one of the discoverers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bimini-roadwall\/\">Bimini Road<\/a>. However, their lack of scientific background allows them to declare that many of the rocks there were not local but quarried in the far-off Andes. The book contains a defence of pot-smoking, which is probably more interesting than their grasp of the Atlantis mystery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Michael Grumley died of AIDS in 1988 and Robert Ferro died similarly less than three months later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book received poor reviews, but it can be &#8216;borrowed&#8217; online from the Internet Archive <sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/atlantisautobiog0000ferr\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/atlantisautobiog0000ferr\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis: The Autobiography of a Search [594] two young writers Robert Ferro and his partner Michael Grumley. Most of their output was fiction but they collaborated on this non-fiction book in the late 1960s. Unfortunately, it does little to advance the search for Atlantis. Apparently, inspired by the writings of Edgar Cayce, they descended on [&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":[289,82,5792,6212,6211],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bimini-road","tag-edgar-cayce","tag-manson-valentine","tag-michael-grumley","tag-robert-ferro"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","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=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65561,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/65561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}