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The Lost Land of Lemuria : Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories /

During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ramaswamy, Sumathi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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